Medical Equipment Repairers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,104
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,466
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,023
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
$78,570
Kept after tax
$64,104
Worth in national money
$63,023
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays medical equipment repairers a middle wage of $78,570, ranking 1 of 51 states and sitting about 27.42% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Medical equipment repairers ranks 163 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $78,570, tax leaves $64,104, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,023 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $81,600, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for medical equipment repairers is $78,570, about 27.42% above the national figure and 1 of 51 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 163 of 430 in Alaska places medical equipment repairers 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 repairers — median $78,570 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $64,104 retained, $63,023 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $81,600 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Medical Equipment Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $63,490 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,570 |
| Top tenth earn over | $99,520 |
| This salary | $78,570 |
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 | $64,104 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,104 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,944 |
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 | $78,570 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,067 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $78,570 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $63,490 and the ninetieth is $99,520 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $64,104 take-home in Alaska comes from $78,570. 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 163 of 430.
- Two cautions on $63,023, the adjusted value of that $78,570 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 163 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $78,570 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $63,490 to $99,520. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Retained pay of $64,104, from $78,570, 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 163 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 1 of 51 for it.
- This $63,023 adjusted figure, worked from $78,570, 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 163 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 163 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 $81,600 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $63,490 at the bottom tenth to $99,520 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $63,023 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $64,104 of this wage reaches your account, because Alaska takes no income tax from wages — but federal tax, Social Security and Medicare still apply exactly as they do everywhere else.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $81,600. 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 ($63,490 to $99,520) 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 $63,023 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 $64,104 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.