Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$42,146
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,594
15.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$41,435
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
$49,740
Kept after tax
$42,146
Worth in national money
$41,435
State rank
22
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Middling, nationally. Alaska pays this job around $49,740 at the midpoint, 22 of 49 states. The interesting numbers on this page are the two below it.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 322 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $49,740, take-home of $42,146 is worth roughly $41,435 in national money. The average comes to $50,770, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders the Alaska median is $49,740, ranking 22 of 49 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.
- Position 322 of 430 in Alaska places mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders 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.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders, whose median is $49,740, the adjusted figure of $41,435 differs little from $42,146 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $50,770 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $35,290 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $49,740 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,780 |
| This salary | $49,740 |
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 | $42,146 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $42,146 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,936 |
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 | $49,740 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,341 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- A median is the middle, not an offer. Half of mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Alaska earn under $49,740 and half over. The published range runs $35,290 at the tenth percentile to $75,780 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $42,146, from $49,740, 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 322 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $41,435, the adjusted value of that $49,740 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 322 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $35,290 to $75,780; within-state dispersion of that width routinely exceeds the dispersion between states, so tenure, employer and metropolitan area predict an individual's pay better than geography does.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $42,146 from $49,740. 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 322 of 430 locally.
- This $41,435 adjusted figure, worked from $49,740, 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 322 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 322 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $35,290 and the top tenth $75,780 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $41,435 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $42,146 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 49 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($35,290) and the ninetieth ($75,780) 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 $41,435 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 $42,146 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.