Child, Family, and School Social Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,503
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,127
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,618
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
$62,630
Kept after tax
$52,503
Worth in national money
$51,618
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Neither high nor low. Alaska is 19 of 51 states for this job, with a middle wage of $62,630. What that is worth is the question the rest of this page answers.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 236 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 $62,630, take-home of $52,503 is worth roughly $51,618 in national money. The average comes to $66,110, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska ranks 19 of 51 for child, family, and school social workers at $62,630. The nominal figure is unremarkable; the adjusted figures are where the state's actual position for this occupation is determined.
- Child, family, and school social workers ranks 236 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 child, family, and school social workers, whose median is $62,630, the adjusted figure of $51,618 differs little from $52,503 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $66,110 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Child, Family, and School Social Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,330 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $91,240 |
| This salary | $62,630 |
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 | $52,503 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,503 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,412 |
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 | $62,630 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,917 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $62,630 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $45,330 and the ninetieth is $91,240 — 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 $52,503, worked from $62,630. 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 236 of 430.
- Two cautions on $51,618, the adjusted value of that $62,630 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 236 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $62,630 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $45,330 to $91,240. 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 $52,503, on $62,630 for work ranking 236 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 236 of 430 in the state.
- This $51,618 adjusted figure, worked from $62,630, 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 236 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 236 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 $66,110 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $45,330 and the top tenth $91,240 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $51,618 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $52,503 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $66,110. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($45,330) and the ninetieth ($91,240) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $51,618 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 $52,503 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.