Driver/Sales Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,085
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,335
15.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$40,393
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
$48,420
Kept after tax
$41,085
Worth in national money
$40,393
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for driver/sales workers is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $48,420, putting the state 1 of 51 — about 24.89% ahead of the national figure.
- Against 430 occupations Alaska publishes, driver/sales workers lands at 330. That is the lower quarter. That is the comparison people actually feel, more than any national table.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $48,420, take-home of $41,085 is worth roughly $40,393 in national money. The average lands at $48,120, below the middle of the range.
- For driver/sales workers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $48,420, ranking 1 of 51 and running about 24.89% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Within Alaska, this work ranks 330 of 430 occupations by median pay, in the bottom quartile. The within-state position is the more salient one for anyone weighing this job against alternatives available to them locally.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for driver/sales workers, whose median is $48,420, the adjusted figure of $40,393 differs little from $41,085 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $48,120 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Driver/Sales Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,800 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $48,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $61,760 |
| This salary | $48,420 |
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 | $41,085 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,085 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,887 |
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 | $48,420 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,282 |
| 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 $48,420. The published range is $35,800 up to $61,760, 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 $41,085, worked from $48,420. 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 330 of 430.
- Two cautions on $40,393, the adjusted value of that $48,420 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 330 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for driver/sales workers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,800 to $61,760. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $41,085, on $48,420 for work ranking 330 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 330 of 430 in the state.
- This $40,393 adjusted figure, worked from $48,420, 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 330 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 330 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $35,800 at the bottom tenth to $61,760 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $40,393 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $41,085 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 ($35,800 to $61,760) 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 $40,393 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 $41,085 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.