Healthcare Support Workers, All Other in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,435
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,865
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,567
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
$61,300
Kept after tax
$51,435
Worth in national money
$50,567
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for healthcare support workers, all other is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $61,300, putting the state 3 of 51 — about 26.57% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 247 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $61,300, take-home of $51,435 is worth roughly $50,567 in national money. The average comes to $63,810, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For healthcare support workers, all other, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $61,300, ranking 3 of 51 and running about 26.57% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- Healthcare support workers, all other ranks 247 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.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for healthcare support workers, all other, whose median is $61,300, the adjusted figure of $50,567 differs little from $51,435 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $63,810 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Healthcare Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,300 |
| Top tenth earn over | $80,390 |
| This salary | $61,300 |
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 | $51,435 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,435 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,363 |
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 | $61,300 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,857 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,300 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $53,790 and the ninetieth is $80,390 — 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 $51,435, worked from $61,300. 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 247 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $50,567, the adjusted value of that $61,300 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 247 of 430 in the state.
- The Alaska median of $61,300 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $53,790 to $80,390. 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 $51,435, on $61,300 for work ranking 247 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 247 of 430 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $50,567 — the adjusted value of that $61,300 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 247 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 $63,810, 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 $53,790 and the top tenth $80,390, 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 $50,567 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $51,435 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
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 $63,810. 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 ($53,790 to $80,390) 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 $50,567 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 $51,435 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.