First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,962
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$11,878
17.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,985
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
$69,840
Kept after tax
$57,962
Worth in national money
$56,985
State rank
16
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $69,840, putting the state 16 of 51 — about 0.49% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 430 occupations Alaska reports figures for, this is number 213.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $69,840 the take-home is $57,962, which is worth about $56,985 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $71,710, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $69,840, ranking 16 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.
- In Alaska's occupational distribution, first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers sits at 213 of 430 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers on its $69,840 median: $57,962 retained after tax becomes $56,985 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $71,710 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $98,220 |
| This salary | $69,840 |
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 | $57,962 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,962 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,662 |
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 | $69,840 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,636 |
| 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 $69,840. The published range is $47,990 up to $98,220, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $57,962 take-home in Alaska comes from $69,840. 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 213 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,985 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 213.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $47,990 to $98,220. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $57,962, from $69,840, 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 213 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 16 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,985, worked from $69,840, 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 213 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $47,990 at the tenth percentile, $98,220 at the ninetieth.
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 $56,985 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $57,962 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
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 ($47,990 to $98,220) 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 $56,985 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 $57,962 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.