Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,519
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,641
18.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,431
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
$79,160
Kept after tax
$64,519
Worth in national money
$63,431
State rank
18
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $79,160, ranking 18 of 50 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 157 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $79,160 the take-home is $64,519, which is worth about $63,431 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $83,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska occupies the middle band for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists: a median of $79,160, ranking 18 of 50. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Position 157 of 430 in Alaska places compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists 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.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists on its $79,160 median: $64,519 retained after tax becomes $63,431 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $83,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,160 |
| Top tenth earn over | $111,620 |
| This salary | $79,160 |
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 | $64,519 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,519 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,964 |
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 | $79,160 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,094 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $79,160 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $58,730 and the ninetieth is $111,620 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $64,519, from $79,160, 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 157 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $63,431, the adjusted value of that $79,160 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 157 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $79,160 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $58,730 to $111,620. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $64,519 from $79,160. 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 157 of 430 locally.
- This $63,431 adjusted figure, worked from $79,160, 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 157 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 157 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 $83,220 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $58,730 at the tenth percentile, $111,620 at the ninetieth.
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 $63,431 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $64,519 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 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 $83,220. 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 ($58,730 to $111,620) 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 $63,431 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 $64,519 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.