Loan Interviewers and Clerks in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,536
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,934
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,802
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
$51,470
Kept after tax
$43,536
Worth in national money
$42,802
State rank
19
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays loan interviewers and clerks around $51,470 at the midpoint, 19 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 315 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $51,470, take-home of $43,536 is worth roughly $42,802 in national money. The average comes to $54,270, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For loan interviewers and clerks the Alaska median is $51,470, ranking 19 of 51 states reporting. Mid-band nominal positions are the ones most frequently reordered by the adjustments, because no large wage premium exists to absorb a state's tax or price level.
- Loan interviewers and clerks ranks 315 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.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for loan interviewers and clerks, whose median is $51,470, the adjusted figure of $42,802 differs little from $43,536 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $54,270 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Loan Interviewers and Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $44,660 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,470 |
| Top tenth earn over | $66,500 |
| This salary | $51,470 |
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 | $43,536 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,536 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,000 |
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 | $51,470 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,418 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $51,470 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $44,660 and the ninetieth is $66,500 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $43,536, from $51,470, 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 315 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $42,802, the adjusted value of that $51,470 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 315 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $51,470 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $44,660 to $66,500. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $43,536 from $51,470. 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 315 of 430 locally.
- This $42,802 adjusted figure, worked from $51,470, 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 315 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 315 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 $54,270, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $44,660 at the bottom tenth to $66,500 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $42,802 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $43,536 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?
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 $54,270. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($44,660 to $66,500) 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 $42,802 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 $43,536 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.