English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$67,059
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$15,711
19.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$65,928
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
$82,770
Kept after tax
$67,059
Worth in national money
$65,928
State rank
14
of 49 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 $82,770, ranking 14 of 49 states and sitting about 5.09% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 134 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $82,770, take-home of $67,059 is worth roughly $65,928 in national money. The average lands at $81,200, below the middle of the range.
- Alaska's median for english language and literature teachers, postsecondary is $82,770, about 5.09% above the national figure and 14 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.
- English language and literature teachers, postsecondary ranks 134 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.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for english language and literature teachers, postsecondary, whose median is $82,770, the adjusted figure of $65,928 differs little from $67,059 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $81,200 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,030 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $82,770 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,840 |
| This salary | $82,770 |
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 | $67,059 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $67,059 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,080 |
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 | $82,770 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,255 |
| 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 english language and literature teachers, postsecondary in Alaska earn under $82,770 and half over. The published range runs $65,030 at the tenth percentile to $83,840 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 $67,059, worked from $82,770. 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 134 of 430.
- Two cautions on $65,928, the adjusted value of that $82,770 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 134 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for english language and literature teachers, postsecondary in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $65,030 to $83,840; 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 $67,059, on $82,770 for work ranking 134 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 134 of 430 in the state.
- This $65,928 adjusted figure, worked from $82,770, 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 134 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 134 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $65,030 at the bottom tenth to $83,840 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 $65,928 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $67,059 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($65,030 to $83,840) 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 $65,928 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 $67,059 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.