Home Health and Personal Care Aides in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$34,111
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$5,629
14.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$33,536
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
$39,740
Kept after tax
$34,111
Worth in national money
$33,536
State rank
7
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays home health and personal care aides a middle wage of $39,740, ranking 7 of 51 states and sitting about 11.01% above the national middle.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, home health and personal care aides ranks 392. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $39,740, take-home of $34,111 is worth roughly $33,536 in national money. The average comes to $40,450, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska's median for home health and personal care aides is $39,740, about 11.01% above the national figure and 7 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, home health and personal care aides ranks 392 of 430, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for home health and personal care aides, whose median is $39,740, the adjusted figure of $33,536 differs little from $34,111 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $40,450 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Home Health and Personal Care Aides
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $30,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $39,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $46,740 |
| This salary | $39,740 |
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 | $34,111 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $34,111 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,567 |
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 | $39,740 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,895 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of home health and personal care aides in Alaska earn under $39,740 and half over. The published range runs $30,710 at the tenth percentile to $46,740 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $34,111 take-home in Alaska comes from $39,740. 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 392 of 430.
- Two cautions on $33,536, the adjusted value of that $39,740 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 392 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for home health and personal care aides in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $30,710 to $46,740; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Retained pay of $34,111, from $39,740, 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 392 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 51 for it.
- This $33,536 adjusted figure, worked from $39,740, 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 392 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 392 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $30,710 and the top tenth $46,740, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $33,536 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $34,111 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($30,710 to $46,740) 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 $33,536 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 $34,111 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.