Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,171
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$8,089
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,426
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
$52,260
Kept after tax
$44,171
Worth in national money
$43,426
State rank
8
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $52,260, putting the state 8 of 45 — about 9.72% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 307 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $52,260, take-home of $44,171 is worth roughly $43,426 in national money. The average comes to $53,910, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For automotive glass installers and repairers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $52,260, ranking 8 of 45 and running about 9.72% 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.
- Automotive glass installers and repairers ranks 307 of 430 occupations in Alaska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for automotive glass installers and repairers, whose median is $52,260, the adjusted figure of $43,426 differs little from $44,171 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $53,910 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $42,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,260 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,710 |
| This salary | $52,260 |
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 | $44,171 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,171 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,029 |
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 | $52,260 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,454 |
| 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 glass installers and repairers in Alaska earn under $52,260 and half over. The published range runs $42,030 at the tenth percentile to $61,710 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $44,171, from $52,260, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 307 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $43,426, the adjusted value of that $52,260 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 307 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for automotive glass installers and repairers in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $42,030 to $61,710; 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.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,171 from $52,260. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 307 of 430 locally.
- This $43,426 adjusted figure, worked from $52,260, 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 307 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 307 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $53,910, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $42,030 and the top tenth $61,710, 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 $43,426 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $44,171 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $53,910. 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 ($42,030 to $61,710) 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 $43,426 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 $44,171 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.
Why does this occupation lack published estimates in every state?
BLS suppresses estimates failing disclosure or reliability criteria. This occupation has published state-level estimates in 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.