Loan Officers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$60,045
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$12,755
17.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$59,032
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
$72,800
Kept after tax
$60,045
Worth in national money
$59,032
State rank
32
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays loan officers around $72,800 at the midpoint, 32 of 51 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 198 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $72,800, tax leaves $60,045, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $59,032 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $73,300, since top earners drag the number up.
- For loan officers the Alaska median is $72,800, ranking 32 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 officers ranks 198 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for loan officers — median $72,800 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $60,045 retained, $59,032 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $73,300 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Loan Officers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $26,730 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $72,800 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,570 |
| This salary | $72,800 |
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 | $60,045 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $60,045 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,758 |
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 | $72,800 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,810 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $72,800 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $26,730 and the ninetieth is $123,570 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $60,045, from $72,800, 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 198 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $59,032, the adjusted value of that $72,800 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 198 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $72,800 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $26,730 to $123,570. 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 $60,045 from $72,800. 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 198 of 430 locally.
- This $59,032 adjusted figure, worked from $72,800, 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 198 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 198 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $26,730, the highest tenth $123,570, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
A larger wage in a dearer place is not automatically more. Adjusted for local prices, this pay behaves like $59,032 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $60,045 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?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($26,730) and the ninetieth ($123,570) 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 $59,032 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 $60,045 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.