Medical Equipment Preparers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,291
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,629
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,578
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
$49,920
Kept after tax
$42,291
Worth in national money
$41,578
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for medical equipment preparers. The middle earner takes $49,920, which ranks 10 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 4.65% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Medical equipment preparers ranks 320 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $49,920, tax leaves $42,291, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $41,578 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $56,020, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska ranks 10 of 51 states publishing a median for medical equipment preparers, at $49,920 — about 4.65% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- Position 320 of 430 in Alaska places medical equipment preparers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for medical equipment preparers — median $49,920 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $42,291 retained, $41,578 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $56,020 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Preparers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $45,750 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,920 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,590 |
| This salary | $49,920 |
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 | $42,291 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,291 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,943 |
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 | $49,920 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,349 |
| 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 $49,920. The published range is $45,750 up to $77,590, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $42,291 take-home in Alaska comes from $49,920. 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 320 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $41,578, the adjusted value of that $49,920 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 320 of 430 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for medical equipment preparers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $45,750 to $77,590. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $42,291, from $49,920, 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 320 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $41,578 — the adjusted value of that $49,920 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 320 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 $56,020, 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?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $45,750 at the tenth percentile, $77,590 at the ninetieth.
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 $41,578 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $42,291 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 $56,020. 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 ($45,750 to $77,590) 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 $41,578 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 $42,291 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.