First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$41,857
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,523
15.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,151
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
$49,380
Kept after tax
$41,857
Worth in national money
$41,151
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska sits in the middle of the pack for this job. The median is $49,380, ranking 19 of 51 states with figures. Close enough to the national middle that where you live matters more than the headline suggests.
- Measured against other jobs in Alaska, this one sits low: 324 of 430 occupations with published pay, in the bottom quarter.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $49,380, tax leaves $41,857, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $41,151 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $54,480, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska occupies the middle band for first-line supervisors of personal service workers: a median of $49,380, ranking 19 of 51. Where nominal pay is close to the national figure, the tax and price adjustments below carry proportionally more weight in determining the real outcome.
- First-line supervisors of personal service workers occupies position 324 of 430 in Alaska's occupational wage distribution, in the bottom quartile. National ranking and local ranking answer different questions and frequently disagree; this is the one a resident experiences.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of personal service workers — median $49,380 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $41,857 retained, $41,151 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $54,480 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,840 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,380 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,000 |
| This salary | $49,380 |
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 | $41,857 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $41,857 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,923 |
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 | $49,380 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,325 |
| 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 $49,380. The published range is $35,840 up to $73,000, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $41,857, worked from $49,380. 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 324 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $41,151 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 324.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of personal service workers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $35,840 to $73,000. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $41,857, on $49,380 for work ranking 324 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 324 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $41,151, worked from $49,380, 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 324 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $54,480, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $35,840 at the bottom tenth to $73,000 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $41,151 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $41,857 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $54,480. 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 ($35,840) and the ninetieth ($73,000) 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 $41,151 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 $41,857 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.