Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,097
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$11,513
16.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,134
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
$68,610
Kept after tax
$57,097
Worth in national money
$56,134
State rank
22
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays this job around $68,610 at the midpoint, 22 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 217 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 $68,610, tax leaves $57,097, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $56,134 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $68,590.
- For healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other the Alaska median is $68,610, ranking 22 of 49 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.
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other ranks 217 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 healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other — median $68,610 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $57,097 retained, $56,134 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $68,590 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $25,890 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $68,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $117,620 |
| This salary | $68,610 |
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 | $57,097 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,097 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,623 |
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 | $68,610 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,434 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $68,610 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $25,890 and the ninetieth is $117,620 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $57,097, worked from $68,610. 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 217 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,134 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 217.
- The Alaska median of $68,610 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $25,890 to $117,620. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $57,097, on $68,610 for work ranking 217 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 217 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,134, worked from $68,610, 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 217 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $25,890, the highest tenth $117,620, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $56,134 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $57,097 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($25,890) and the ninetieth ($117,620) 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 $56,134 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 $57,097 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.