Computer User Support Specialists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,889
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,221
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,997
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
$63,110
Kept after tax
$52,889
Worth in national money
$51,997
State rank
13
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 $63,110, ranking 13 of 51 states and sitting about 2.02% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 233 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $63,110, tax leaves $52,889, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $51,997 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $65,000, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for computer user support specialists is $63,110, about 2.02% above the national figure and 13 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 233 of 430 in Alaska places computer user support 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for computer user support specialists — median $63,110 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $52,889 retained, $51,997 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $65,000 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Computer User Support Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,010 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,110 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,330 |
| This salary | $63,110 |
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 | $52,889 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,889 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,429 |
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 | $63,110 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,938 |
| 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 $63,110. The published range is $45,010 up to $85,330, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $52,889, worked from $63,110. 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 233 of 430.
- Two cautions on $51,997, the adjusted value of that $63,110 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 233 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for computer user support specialists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,010 to $85,330. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $52,889, on $63,110 for work ranking 233 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 233 of 430 in the state.
- This $51,997 adjusted figure, worked from $63,110, 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 233 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 233 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $45,010 and the top tenth $85,330, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $51,997 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $52,889 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?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($45,010 to $85,330) 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 $51,997 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 $52,889 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.