Amusement and Recreation Attendants in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$38,884
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$6,796
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,228
Alaska costs more than average
On that salary you would be around the 25th percentile for this work in Alaska — roughly, since only five points along the band are published.
One filer, standard deduction, no dependants and nothing paid in before tax — the same household the rest of this page uses, so the comparison holds. City and school-district income taxes are not included.
Median here
$45,680
Kept after tax
$38,884
Worth in national money
$38,228
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $45,680, putting the state 1 of 51 — about 42.08% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 430 occupations Alaska publishes, this job lands at 366. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $45,680, tax leaves $38,884, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $38,228 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $43,910.
- For amusement and recreation attendants, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $45,680, ranking 1 of 51 and running about 42.08% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Alaska, this work ranks 366 of 430 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for amusement and recreation attendants — median $45,680 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $38,884 retained, $38,228 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $43,910 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Amusement and Recreation Attendants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $32,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $45,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $54,500 |
| This salary | $45,680 |
Positions between the published tenth, quarter, half, three-quarter and ninetieth points are estimated by straight line.
The same pay, somewhere else
The state median for this job
| Take-home in Alaska | $38,884 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $38,884 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,786 |
The raise and the real gain point in opposite directions here.
State income tax and state price levels only. No city income tax, and no housing market.
What you would need there
The state median for this job
| To match take-home only | $45,680 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,160 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $45,680 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $32,720 and the ninetieth is $54,500 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $38,884 take-home in Alaska comes from $45,680. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 366 of 430.
- Two cautions on $38,228, the adjusted value of that $45,680 median. It levels out prices with a single number for all of Alaska. No actual address matches that. The wage figures and price figures are also from different years. Each is published on its own timetable. This work sits at 366 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $45,680 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $32,720 to $54,500. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $38,884, from $45,680, assumes a single Alaska filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 366 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- This $38,228 adjusted figure, worked from $45,680, rests on a state-level price parity averaging over within-state dispersion larger than much of the between-state dispersion. Wage and price vintages differ by publication schedule. The result is directionally sound and not address-specific, for work at 366 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 366 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $43,910 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $32,720 at the bottom tenth to $54,500 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Alaska costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $38,228 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $38,884 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
How does the published median differ from the mean for this occupation?
The median is the midpoint of the distribution; the mean for this occupation in Alaska is $43,910. Wage distributions are right-skewed, so the mean exceeds the median wherever a minority earn substantially more. BLS publishes both because substituting one for the other misstates a typical worker's pay.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($32,720 to $54,500) sits at or below the family's median dispersion, indicating relatively standardized compensation. Percentiles are published per state, so this dispersion is specific to Alaska rather than a national figure.
How does the state price level affect real compensation?
Alaska's regional price parity sits above the national average, so nominal wages overstate purchasing power. Deflating take-home by the state price level gives $38,228 in national-average terms. ⚠️ RPPs are an all-items index; housing parities vary far more widely than the headline figure.
Why is the take-home ratio comparatively high in this state?
Alaska levies no personal income tax on wages, so take-home of $38,884 reflects the federal layer and FICA alone. Federal income tax and FICA are unchanged; states without a wage income tax generally recover revenue through consumption and property bases instead.
Is this occupation's state coverage complete?
State-level estimates are published for all 51 jurisdictions for this occupation, so cross-state comparison is not confounded by suppression. ⚠️ Estimates remain survey-based and carry sampling error; small differences between adjacent states should not be over-read.