Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,153
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,797
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,291
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
$60,950
Kept after tax
$51,153
Worth in national money
$50,291
State rank
30
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays this job around $60,950 at the midpoint, 30 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 253 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $60,950, tax leaves $51,153, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,291 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $69,270, since top earners drag the number up.
- For clinical laboratory technologists and technicians the Alaska median is $60,950, ranking 30 of 51 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.
- Position 253 of 430 in Alaska places clinical laboratory technologists and technicians 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians — median $60,950 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $51,153 retained, $50,291 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,270 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Clinical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,950 |
| Top tenth earn over | $109,080 |
| This salary | $60,950 |
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 | $51,153 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,153 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,350 |
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 | $60,950 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,842 |
| 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 clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Alaska earn under $60,950 and half over. The published range runs $44,550 at the tenth percentile to $109,080 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $51,153, from $60,950, 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 253 of 430 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $50,291, the adjusted value of that $60,950 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 253 of 430 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for clinical laboratory technologists and technicians in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $44,550 to $109,080; 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 $51,153 from $60,950. 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 253 of 430 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $50,291 — the adjusted value of that $60,950 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 253 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 $69,270 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 $44,550 and the top tenth $109,080 — 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 $50,291 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $51,153 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?
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 $69,270. 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 ($44,550) and the ninetieth ($109,080) 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 $50,291 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 $51,153 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.