First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,044
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,036
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,234
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
$57,080
Kept after tax
$48,044
Worth in national money
$47,234
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays this job a middle wage of $57,080, ranking 8 of 51 states and sitting about 17.64% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 275 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,080, tax leaves $48,044, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,234 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $59,190, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for first-line supervisors of retail sales workers is $57,080, about 17.64% above the national figure and 8 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- First-line supervisors of retail sales workers ranks 275 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of retail sales workers — median $57,080 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,044 retained, $47,234 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $59,190 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,180 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,080 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,990 |
| This salary | $57,080 |
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 | $48,044 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,044 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,207 |
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 | $57,080 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,669 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $57,080 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $38,180 and the ninetieth is $77,990 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $48,044 take-home in Alaska comes from $57,080. 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 275 of 430.
- Two cautions on $47,234, the adjusted value of that $57,080 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 275 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $57,080 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $38,180 to $77,990. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $48,044, from $57,080, 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 275 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 51 for it.
- This $47,234 adjusted figure, worked from $57,080, 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 275 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 275 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 $59,190 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $38,180 and the top tenth $77,990, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $47,234 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,044 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?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $59,190. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($38,180 to $77,990) 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 $47,234 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 $48,044 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.