Labor Relations Specialists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,612
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,258
18.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$62,539
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
$77,870
Kept after tax
$63,612
Worth in national money
$62,539
State rank
39
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alaska pays labor relations specialists a middle wage of $77,870, 39 of 51 states and about 18.39% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Labor relations specialists ranks 167 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $77,870, take-home of $63,612 is worth roughly $62,539 in national money. The average comes to $83,600, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska's $77,870 median for labor relations specialists places it 39 of 51 states, about 18.39% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Position 167 of 430 in Alaska places labor relations specialists in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for labor relations specialists, whose median is $77,870, the adjusted figure of $62,539 differs little from $63,612 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $83,600 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Labor Relations Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,870 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $130,200 |
| This salary | $77,870 |
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 | $63,612 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,612 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,922 |
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 | $77,870 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,036 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alaska earn less than $77,870. The published range is $49,870 up to $130,200, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $63,612, from $77,870, 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 167 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $62,539, the adjusted value of that $77,870 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 167 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for labor relations specialists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,870 to $130,200. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $63,612 from $77,870. 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 167 of 430 locally.
- This $62,539 adjusted figure, worked from $77,870, 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 167 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 167 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $83,600, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $49,870 and the top tenth $130,200 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $62,539 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $63,612 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 $83,600. 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 ($49,870) and the ninetieth ($130,200) 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 $62,539 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 $63,612 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.