Nurse Practitioners in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$117,325
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$37,845
24.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$115,346
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
$155,170
Kept after tax
$117,325
Worth in national money
$115,346
State rank
5
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays nurse practitioners a middle wage of $155,170, ranking 5 of 51 states and sitting about 17.29% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 430 occupations Alaska reports, nurse practitioners comes in at 12 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $155,170 the take-home is $117,325, which is worth about $115,346 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $149,120, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Alaska's median for nurse practitioners is $155,170, about 17.29% above the national figure and 5 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.
- Nurse practitioners ranks 12 of 430 occupations by median in Alaska, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for nurse practitioners on its $155,170 median: $117,325 retained after tax becomes $115,346 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $149,120 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Nurse Practitioners
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $95,570 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $155,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $207,490 |
| This salary | $155,170 |
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 | $117,325 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $117,325 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$5,389 |
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 | $155,170 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$7,662 |
| 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 $155,170. The published range is $95,570 up to $207,490, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $117,325, worked from $155,170. That is on purpose. It lets states be compared with each other, not with each other's family circumstances. Local city taxes are left out. Locally this work ranks 12 of 430.
- Two cautions on $115,346, the adjusted value of that $155,170 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 12 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for nurse practitioners in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $95,570 to $207,490. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $117,325, on $155,170 for work ranking 12 of 430 locally, models the simplest household deliberately: holding it constant is what makes the interstate comparison meaningful. It also means the absolute figure overstates liability for most real filers, and municipal income taxes are outside the model entirely. The occupation ranks 12 of 430 in the state.
- This $115,346 adjusted figure, worked from $155,170, 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 12 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 12 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $149,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
The label is broader than the work. From $95,570 at the bottom tenth to $207,490 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $115,346 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $117,325 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 $149,120. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($95,570) and the ninetieth ($207,490) 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 $115,346 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 $117,325 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.