First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$53,941
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,479
16.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$53,032
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
$64,420
Kept after tax
$53,941
Worth in national money
$53,032
State rank
18
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays this job around $64,420 at the midpoint, 18 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 226 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $64,420, tax leaves $53,941, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $53,032 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $72,390, since top earners drag the number up.
- For first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling the Alaska median is $64,420, ranking 18 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Position 226 of 430 in Alaska places first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling — median $64,420 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $53,941 retained, $53,032 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $72,390 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: First-Line Supervisors of Transportation and Material Moving Workers, Except Aircraft Cargo Handling
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,350 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $64,420 |
| Top tenth earn over | $106,070 |
| This salary | $64,420 |
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 | $53,941 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $53,941 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,478 |
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 | $64,420 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,996 |
| 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 $64,420. The published range is $45,350 up to $106,070, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $53,941, from $64,420, assumes one filer, no dependants, and nothing paid into a pension before tax. Each of those lowers the bill, so treat it as the plain case. City and school-district income taxes are not included either, and in a few states those are real money. It ranks 226 of 430 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $53,032 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 226.
- Reported values are medians; for first-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,350 to $106,070. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $53,941 from $64,420. Each omitted item reduces taxable income, so the figure is a lower bound on retained pay for this household shape. Municipal and school-district income taxes are excluded, which understates the burden materially in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The occupation ranks 226 of 430 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $53,032, worked from $64,420, 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 226 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 $72,390 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $45,350 at the bottom tenth to $106,070 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $53,032 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $53,941 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 $72,390. 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 ($45,350) and the ninetieth ($106,070) 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 $53,032 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 $53,941 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.