Emergency Medical Technicians in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,333
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,107
15.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,518
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
$57,440
Kept after tax
$48,333
Worth in national money
$47,518
State rank
2
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 $57,440, ranking 2 of 51 states and sitting about 29.17% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 272 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $57,440 the take-home is $48,333, which is worth about $47,518 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $58,800, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska's median for emergency medical technicians is $57,440, about 29.17% above the national figure and 2 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.
- Emergency medical technicians ranks 272 of 430 occupations in Alaska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for emergency medical technicians on its $57,440 median: $48,333 retained after tax becomes $47,518 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $58,800 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Emergency Medical Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,400 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,440 |
| Top tenth earn over | $81,150 |
| This salary | $57,440 |
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 | $48,333 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,333 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,220 |
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 | $57,440 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,685 |
| 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 $57,440. The published range is $44,400 up to $81,150, 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 $48,333, worked from $57,440. 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 272 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $47,518 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 272.
- Reported values are medians; for emergency medical technicians in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $44,400 to $81,150. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $48,333, on $57,440 for work ranking 272 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 272 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $47,518, worked from $57,440, 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 272 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,400 at the bottom tenth to $81,150 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $47,518 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $48,333 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,400 to $81,150) 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 $47,518 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 $48,333 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.