Automotive Body and Related Repairers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,740
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,940
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,868
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
$61,680
Kept after tax
$51,740
Worth in national money
$50,868
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $61,680, putting the state 5 of 51 — about 12.37% ahead of the national figure.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 245 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $61,680, take-home of $51,740 is worth roughly $50,868 in national money. The average comes to $64,240, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For automotive body and related repairers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $61,680, ranking 5 of 51 and running about 12.37% 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.
- Position 245 of 430 in Alaska places automotive body and related repairers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for automotive body and related repairers, whose median is $61,680, the adjusted figure of $50,868 differs little from $51,740 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $64,240 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Automotive Body and Related Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,680 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,060 |
| This salary | $61,680 |
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 | $51,740 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,740 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,377 |
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 | $61,680 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,874 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of automotive body and related repairers in Alaska earn under $61,680 and half over. The published range runs $46,370 at the tenth percentile to $81,060 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $51,740 take-home in Alaska comes from $61,680. 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 245 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $50,868, the adjusted value of that $61,680 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 245 of 430 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive body and related repairers in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,370 to $81,060; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $51,740, from $61,680, 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 245 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 5 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $50,868 — the adjusted value of that $61,680 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 245 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $64,240, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $46,370 and the top tenth $81,060, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $50,868 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $51,740 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $64,240. 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 ($46,370 to $81,060) 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 $50,868 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 $51,740 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.