Electrical Engineers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$97,366
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$28,604
22.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$95,725
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
$125,970
Kept after tax
$97,366
Worth in national money
$95,725
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays electrical engineers a middle wage of $125,970, ranking 10 of 49 states and sitting about 4.43% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 26 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $125,970, tax leaves $97,366, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $95,725 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $122,500.
- Alaska's median for electrical engineers is $125,970, about 4.43% above the national figure and 10 of 49 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Alaska, electrical engineers ranks 26 of 430 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for electrical engineers — median $125,970 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $97,366 retained, $95,725 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $122,500 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Electrical Engineers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $82,360 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $125,970 |
| Top tenth earn over | $177,110 |
| This salary | $125,970 |
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 | $97,366 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $97,366 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,472 |
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 | $125,970 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$6,296 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $125,970 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $82,360 and the ninetieth is $177,110 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $97,366 take-home in Alaska comes from $125,970. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 26 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $95,725 uses one figure for the whole of Alaska. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 430 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 26.
- The Alaska median of $125,970 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $82,360 to $177,110. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $97,366, from $125,970, assumes a single Alaska filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 26 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 49 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $95,725, worked from $125,970, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Alaska address, on work sitting at 26 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $82,360 and the top tenth $177,110 — 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 $95,725 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $97,366 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($82,360) and the ninetieth ($177,110) 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 $95,725 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 $97,366 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.