Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,072
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,618
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,705
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
$102,690
Kept after tax
$81,072
Worth in national money
$79,705
State rank
30
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays this job around $102,690 at the midpoint, 30 of 45 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Within Alaska this is well-paid work. Of 430 occupations with published figures in the state, this job ranks 68 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $102,690, tax leaves $81,072, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $79,705 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $124,870, since top earners drag the number up.
- For health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors the Alaska median is $102,690, ranking 30 of 45 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Alaska publishes a median for, health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors sits 68 of 430 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors — median $102,690 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $81,072 retained, $79,705 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $124,870 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $96,610 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $163,970 |
| This salary | $102,690 |
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 | $81,072 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,072 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,724 |
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 | $102,690 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,144 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $102,690 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $96,610 and the ninetieth is $163,970 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $81,072, from $102,690, 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 68 of 430 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $79,705, the adjusted value of that $102,690 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 68 of 430 in the state.
- The Alaska median of $102,690 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $96,610 to $163,970. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $81,072 from $102,690. 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 68 of 430 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $79,705 — the adjusted value of that $102,690 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 68 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 $124,870 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $96,610 at the tenth percentile, $163,970 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Alaska run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $79,705 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $81,072 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 45 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $124,870. 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 ($96,610 to $163,970) 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 $79,705 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 $81,072 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.