Museum Technicians and Conservators in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,065
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,775
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,204
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
$60,840
Kept after tax
$51,065
Worth in national money
$50,204
State rank
6
of 45 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $60,840, which ranks 6 of 45 states with published figures. That is about 18.27% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 254 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $60,840, tax leaves $51,065, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $50,204 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $59,240.
- Alaska ranks 6 of 45 states publishing a median for museum technicians and conservators, at $60,840 — about 18.27% 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.
- Museum technicians and conservators ranks 254 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for museum technicians and conservators — median $60,840 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $51,065 retained, $50,204 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $59,240 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Museum Technicians and Conservators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $37,960 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,840 |
| Top tenth earn over | $75,040 |
| This salary | $60,840 |
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 | $51,065 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,065 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,346 |
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 | $60,840 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,837 |
| 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 museum technicians and conservators in Alaska earn under $60,840 and half over. The published range runs $37,960 at the tenth percentile to $75,040 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $51,065, from $60,840, 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 254 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $50,204, the adjusted value of that $60,840 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 254 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for museum technicians and conservators in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $37,960 to $75,040; 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 $51,065 from $60,840. 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 254 of 430 locally.
- This $50,204 adjusted figure, worked from $60,840, 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 254 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 254 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $37,960 and the top tenth $75,040, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $50,204 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $51,065 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 45 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($37,960 to $75,040) 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 $50,204 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 $51,065 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.