Mechanical Door Repairers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,677
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,873
21.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$80,300
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
$103,550
Kept after tax
$81,677
Worth in national money
$80,300
State rank
1
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays mechanical door repairers a middle wage of $103,550, ranking 1 of 45 states and sitting about 85.84% above the national middle.
- Within Alaska this is well-paid work. Of 430 occupations with published figures in the state, mechanical door repairers ranks 63 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $103,550, take-home of $81,677 is worth roughly $80,300 in national money. The average lands at $97,370, below the middle of the range.
- Alaska's median for mechanical door repairers is $103,550, about 85.84% above the national figure and 1 of 45 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Ranked against every occupation Alaska publishes a median for, mechanical door repairers sits 63 of 430 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for mechanical door repairers, whose median is $103,550, the adjusted figure of $80,300 differs little from $81,677 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $97,370 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Mechanical Door Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $91,690 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $103,550 |
| Top tenth earn over | $105,080 |
| This salary | $103,550 |
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 | $81,677 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,677 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,752 |
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 | $103,550 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,182 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Half the people doing this work in Alaska earn less than $103,550. The published range is $91,690 up to $105,080, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $81,677 take-home in Alaska comes from $103,550. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 63 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $80,300, the adjusted value of that $103,550 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 63 of 430 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for mechanical door repairers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $91,690 to $105,080. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $81,677, from $103,550, assumes a single Alaska filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 63 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 45 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $80,300 — the adjusted value of that $103,550 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 63 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 $97,370 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $91,690 and the top tenth $105,080, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $80,300 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $81,677 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 45 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $97,370. 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 ($91,690 to $105,080) 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 $80,300 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 $81,677 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.