Emergency Management Directors in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,481
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,369
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,124
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
$101,850
Kept after tax
$80,481
Worth in national money
$79,124
State rank
13
of 47 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 $101,850, ranking 13 of 47 states and sitting about 9.13% above the national middle.
- Within Alaska this is well-paid work. Of 430 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 74 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $101,850, tax leaves $80,481, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,124 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $111,240, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for emergency management directors is $101,850, about 9.13% above the national figure and 13 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Alaska publishes a median for, emergency management directors sits 74 of 430 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for emergency management directors — median $101,850 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $80,481 retained, $79,124 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $111,240 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Emergency Management Directors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $62,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $101,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $175,270 |
| This salary | $101,850 |
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 | $80,481 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,481 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,697 |
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 | $101,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,106 |
| 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 $101,850. The published range is $62,140 up to $175,270, 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 $80,481, worked from $101,850. 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 74 of 430.
- Two cautions on $79,124, the adjusted value of that $101,850 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 74 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for emergency management directors in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $62,140 to $175,270. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $80,481, on $101,850 for work ranking 74 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 74 of 430 in the state.
- This $79,124 adjusted figure, worked from $101,850, 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 74 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 74 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $111,240, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $62,140 at the bottom tenth to $175,270 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $79,124 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $80,481 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. 47 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 $111,240. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($62,140) and the ninetieth ($175,270) 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 $79,124 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 $80,481 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.