Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,522
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$8,909
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,720
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
$56,430
Kept after tax
$47,522
Worth in national money
$46,720
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays this job a middle wage of $56,430, ranking 8 of 51 states and sitting about 11.37% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 285 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $56,430, take-home of $47,522 is worth roughly $46,720 in national money. The average comes to $57,640, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska's median for bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks is $56,430, about 11.37% above the national figure and 8 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 285 of 430 in Alaska places bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks 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 bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, whose median is $56,430, the adjusted figure of $46,720 differs little from $47,522 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $57,640 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,430 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,800 |
| This salary | $56,430 |
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 | $47,522 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,522 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,183 |
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 | $56,430 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,640 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $56,430 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $40,000 and the ninetieth is $76,800 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $47,522, worked from $56,430. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 285 of 430.
- Two cautions on $46,720, the adjusted value of that $56,430 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 285 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $56,430 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $40,000 to $76,800. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $47,522, on $56,430 for work ranking 285 of 430 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 285 of 430 in the state.
- This $46,720 adjusted figure, worked from $56,430, 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 285 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 285 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $40,000 and the top tenth $76,800, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $46,720 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $47,522 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($40,000 to $76,800) 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 $46,720 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 $47,522 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.