Financial Examiners in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$72,518
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$18,012
19.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$71,295
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
$90,530
Kept after tax
$72,518
Worth in national money
$71,295
State rank
18
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska sits in the middle of the pack for financial examiners. The median is $90,530, ranking 18 of 49 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 109 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 $90,530 the take-home is $72,518, which is worth about $71,295 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $91,460, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska occupies the middle band for financial examiners: a median of $90,530, ranking 18 of 49. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- Financial examiners ranks 109 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 financial examiners on its $90,530 median: $72,518 retained after tax becomes $71,295 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $91,460 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Financial Examiners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $90,530 |
| Top tenth earn over | $128,410 |
| This salary | $90,530 |
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 | $72,518 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $72,518 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,331 |
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 | $90,530 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,601 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $90,530 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $57,550 and the ninetieth is $128,410 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $72,518, worked from $90,530. 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 109 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $71,295 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 109.
- The Alaska median of $90,530 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $57,550 to $128,410. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $72,518, on $90,530 for work ranking 109 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 109 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $71,295, worked from $90,530, 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 109 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $57,550, the highest tenth $128,410, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $71,295 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $72,518 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 49 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($57,550) and the ninetieth ($128,410) 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 $71,295 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 $72,518 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.