Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$61,846
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$13,514
17.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$60,803
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
$75,360
Kept after tax
$61,846
Worth in national money
$60,803
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays this job a middle wage of $75,360, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 53.08% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 190 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $75,360 the take-home is $61,846, which is worth about $60,803 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $83,760, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska's median for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other is $75,360, about 53.08% above the national figure and 1 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.
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other ranks 190 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.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other on its $75,360 median: $61,846 retained after tax becomes $60,803 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $83,760 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $59,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,360 |
| Top tenth earn over | $133,500 |
| This salary | $75,360 |
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 | $61,846 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $61,846 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,841 |
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 | $75,360 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,924 |
| 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 installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Alaska earn under $75,360 and half over. The published range runs $59,310 at the tenth percentile to $133,500 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $61,846, worked from $75,360. 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 190 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $60,803, the adjusted value of that $75,360 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 190 of 430 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $59,310 to $133,500; 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.
- The Alaska take-home of $61,846, on $75,360 for work ranking 190 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 190 of 430 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $60,803 — the adjusted value of that $75,360 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 190 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 $83,760 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $59,310, the highest tenth $133,500, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $60,803 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $61,846 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
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 $83,760. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($59,310) and the ninetieth ($133,500) 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 $60,803 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 $61,846 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.