Glaziers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,801
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,200
16.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,910
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
$63,000
Kept after tax
$52,801
Worth in national money
$51,910
State rank
10
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays glaziers a middle wage of $63,000, ranking 10 of 50 states and sitting about 10.37% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 430 occupations Alaska reports figures for, this is number 234.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $63,000 the take-home is $52,801, which is worth about $51,910 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $65,520, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska's median for glaziers is $63,000, about 10.37% above the national figure and 10 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- In Alaska's occupational distribution, glaziers sits at 234 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 glaziers on its $63,000 median: $52,801 retained after tax becomes $51,910 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $65,520 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Glaziers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $48,000 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $63,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,560 |
| This salary | $63,000 |
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 | $52,801 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,801 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,425 |
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 | $63,000 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,933 |
| 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 $63,000. The published range is $48,000 up to $75,560, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $52,801 take-home in Alaska comes from $63,000. 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 234 of 430.
- Two cautions on $51,910, the adjusted value of that $63,000 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 234 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for glaziers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $48,000 to $75,560. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $52,801, from $63,000, 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 234 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 50 for it.
- This $51,910 adjusted figure, worked from $63,000, 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 234 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 234 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 $65,520, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $48,000 and the top tenth $75,560, 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 $51,910 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $52,801 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $65,520. 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 ($48,000 to $75,560) 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 $51,910 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 $52,801 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.