Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,418
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,862
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,552
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
$61,280
Kept after tax
$51,418
Worth in national money
$50,552
State rank
11
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $61,280, which ranks 11 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 10.28% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 249 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $61,280 the take-home is $51,418, which is worth about $50,552 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $60,560, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Alaska ranks 11 of 50 states publishing a median for legal secretaries and administrative assistants, at $61,280 — about 10.28% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 249 of 430 in Alaska places legal secretaries and administrative assistants 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.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for legal secretaries and administrative assistants on its $61,280 median: $51,418 retained after tax becomes $50,552 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $60,560 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,720 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $61,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $83,210 |
| This salary | $61,280 |
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 | $51,418 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,418 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,362 |
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 | $61,280 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,856 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $61,280 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,720 and the ninetieth is $83,210 — 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 $51,418, worked from $61,280. 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 249 of 430.
- Two cautions on $50,552, the adjusted value of that $61,280 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 249 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $61,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,720 to $83,210. 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 $51,418, on $61,280 for work ranking 249 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 249 of 430 in the state.
- This $50,552 adjusted figure, worked from $61,280, 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 249 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 249 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $44,720 at the tenth percentile, $83,210 at the ninetieth.
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 $50,552 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $51,418 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,720 to $83,210) 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 $50,552 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 $51,418 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.