Construction and Building Inspectors in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,875
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,535
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,512
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
$102,410
Kept after tax
$80,875
Worth in national money
$79,512
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays construction and building inspectors a middle wage of $102,410, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 37.11% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 430 occupations Alaska reports, construction and building inspectors comes in at 70 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $102,410, tax leaves $80,875, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,512 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $102,330.
- Alaska's median for construction and building inspectors is $102,410, about 37.11% above the national figure and 1 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.
- Construction and building inspectors ranks 70 of 430 occupations by median in Alaska, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for construction and building inspectors — median $102,410 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $80,875 retained, $79,512 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $102,330 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Construction and Building Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $73,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,410 |
| Top tenth earn over | $124,840 |
| This salary | $102,410 |
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 | $80,875 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,875 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,715 |
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 | $102,410 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,131 |
| 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 construction and building inspectors in Alaska earn under $102,410 and half over. The published range runs $73,550 at the tenth percentile to $124,840 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $80,875, worked from $102,410. 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 70 of 430.
- Two cautions on $79,512, the adjusted value of that $102,410 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 70 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for construction and building inspectors in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $73,550 to $124,840; 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.
- The Alaska take-home of $80,875, on $102,410 for work ranking 70 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 70 of 430 in the state.
- This $79,512 adjusted figure, worked from $102,410, 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 70 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 70 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $73,550 at the bottom tenth to $124,840 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
The number and the value are different things. Alaska costs more than the national average, so this take-home stretches like $79,512 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $80,875 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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($73,550 to $124,840) 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 $79,512 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 $80,875 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.