Financial Risk Specialists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,888
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$16,482
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,726
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
$85,370
Kept after tax
$68,888
Worth in national money
$67,726
State rank
40
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alaska pays financial risk specialists a middle wage of $85,370, 40 of 50 states and about 27.24% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Financial risk specialists ranks 124 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $85,370, take-home of $68,888 is worth roughly $67,726 in national money. The average comes to $94,600, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska's $85,370 median for financial risk specialists places it 40 of 50 states, about 27.24% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 124 of 430 in Alaska places financial risk specialists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for financial risk specialists, whose median is $85,370, the adjusted figure of $67,726 differs little from $68,888 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $94,600 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Financial Risk Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $55,860 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $85,370 |
| Top tenth earn over | $131,730 |
| This salary | $85,370 |
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 | $68,888 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,888 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,164 |
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 | $85,370 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,371 |
| 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 $85,370. The published range is $55,860 up to $131,730, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $68,888 take-home in Alaska comes from $85,370. 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 124 of 430.
- Two cautions on $67,726, the adjusted value of that $85,370 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 124 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for financial risk specialists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $55,860 to $131,730. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $68,888, from $85,370, 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 124 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 40 of 50 for it.
- This $67,726 adjusted figure, worked from $85,370, 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 124 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 124 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
Half earn more than this and half earn less. The average sits at $94,600 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $55,860 and the top tenth $131,730 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $67,726 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $68,888 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $94,600. 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 ($55,860) and the ninetieth ($131,730) 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 $67,726 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 $68,888 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.