Logisticians in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$70,231
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$17,049
19.5% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$69,047
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
$87,280
Kept after tax
$70,231
Worth in national money
$69,047
State rank
14
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for logisticians is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $87,280, putting the state 14 of 51 — about 6.03% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 121 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 $87,280 the take-home is $70,231, which is worth about $69,047 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $92,860, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For logisticians, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $87,280, ranking 14 of 51 and running about 6.03% 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.
- Logisticians ranks 121 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 logisticians on its $87,280 median: $70,231 retained after tax becomes $69,047 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $92,860 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Logisticians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $57,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $87,280 |
| Top tenth earn over | $133,090 |
| This salary | $87,280 |
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 | $70,231 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $70,231 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,226 |
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 | $87,280 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,456 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $87,280 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $57,960 and the ninetieth is $133,090 — 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 $70,231, worked from $87,280. 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 121 of 430.
- Two cautions on $69,047, the adjusted value of that $87,280 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 121 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $87,280 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $57,960 to $133,090. 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 $70,231, on $87,280 for work ranking 121 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 121 of 430 in the state.
- This $69,047 adjusted figure, worked from $87,280, 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 121 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 121 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $92,860, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $57,960, the highest tenth $133,090, 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 $69,047 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $70,231 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 $92,860. 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 ($57,960) and the ninetieth ($133,090) 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 $69,047 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 $70,231 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.