Financial and Investment Analysts in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$80,756
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,484
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,394
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
$102,240
Kept after tax
$80,756
Worth in national money
$79,394
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $102,240, putting the state 14 of 51 — about 0.49% ahead of the national figure.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 430 occupations Alaska reports, this job comes in at 71 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $102,240 the take-home is $80,756, which is worth about $79,394 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $129,350, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For financial and investment analysts, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $102,240, ranking 14 of 51 and running about 0.49% 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.
- Financial and investment analysts ranks 71 of 430 occupations by median in Alaska, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for financial and investment analysts on its $102,240 median: $80,756 retained after tax becomes $79,394 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $129,350 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Financial and Investment Analysts
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $68,170 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,240 |
| Top tenth earn over | $237,230 |
| This salary | $102,240 |
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 | $80,756 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $80,756 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,709 |
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 | $102,240 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,124 |
| 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 financial and investment analysts in Alaska earn under $102,240 and half over. The published range runs $68,170 at the tenth percentile to $237,230 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $80,756 take-home in Alaska comes from $102,240. 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 71 of 430.
- Two cautions on $79,394, the adjusted value of that $102,240 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 71 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for financial and investment analysts in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $68,170 to $237,230; 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.
- Retained pay of $80,756, from $102,240, 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 71 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 14 of 51 for it.
- This $79,394 adjusted figure, worked from $102,240, 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 71 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 71 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 $129,350, 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 $68,170 at the bottom tenth to $237,230 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $79,394 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $80,756 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $129,350. 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 ($68,170) and the ninetieth ($237,230) 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 $79,394 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 $80,756 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.