Legal Support Workers, All Other in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$68,628
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$16,373
19.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$67,470
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
$85,000
Kept after tax
$68,628
Worth in national money
$67,470
State rank
8
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for legal support workers, all other is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $85,000, putting the state 8 of 45 — about 17.88% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 125 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 $85,000 the take-home is $68,628, which is worth about $67,470 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $88,030, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For legal support workers, all other, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $85,000, ranking 8 of 45 and running about 17.88% 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.
- Legal support workers, all other ranks 125 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 legal support workers, all other on its $85,000 median: $68,628 retained after tax becomes $67,470 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $88,030 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Legal Support Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,760 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $85,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $129,410 |
| This salary | $85,000 |
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 | $68,628 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $68,628 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,152 |
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 | $85,000 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,354 |
| 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 legal support workers, all other in Alaska earn under $85,000 and half over. The published range runs $50,760 at the tenth percentile to $129,410 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 $68,628, worked from $85,000. 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 125 of 430.
- Two cautions on $67,470, the adjusted value of that $85,000 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 125 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for legal support workers, all other in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $50,760 to $129,410; 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 $68,628, on $85,000 for work ranking 125 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 125 of 430 in the state.
- This $67,470 adjusted figure, worked from $85,000, 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 125 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 125 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 $88,030 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 $50,760, the highest tenth $129,410, 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 $67,470 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $68,628 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $88,030. 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 ($50,760) and the ninetieth ($129,410) 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 $67,470 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 $68,628 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 45 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.