Cargo and Freight Agents in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$44,018
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$8,052
15.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$43,276
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
$52,070
Kept after tax
$44,018
Worth in national money
$43,276
State rank
19
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays cargo and freight agents around $52,070 at the midpoint, 19 of 48 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 310 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $52,070, tax leaves $44,018, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $43,276 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $57,880, since top earners drag the number up.
- For cargo and freight agents the Alaska median is $52,070, ranking 19 of 48 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Cargo and freight agents ranks 310 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for cargo and freight agents — median $52,070 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $44,018 retained, $43,276 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $57,880 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Cargo and Freight Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,740 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $52,070 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,170 |
| This salary | $52,070 |
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 | $44,018 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $44,018 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,022 |
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 | $52,070 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,445 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alaska earn less than $52,070. The published range is $43,740 up to $80,170, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $44,018, from $52,070, 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 310 of 430 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $43,276 uses one figure for the whole of Alaska. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 430 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 310.
- Reported values are medians; for cargo and freight agents in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $43,740 to $80,170. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $44,018 from $52,070. 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 310 of 430 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $43,276, worked from $52,070, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Alaska address, on work sitting at 310 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 $57,880, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $43,740 at the bottom tenth to $80,170 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Alaska run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $43,276 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $44,018 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 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 $57,880. 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 ($43,740 to $80,170) 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 $43,276 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 $44,018 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.