Order Clerks in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$32,384
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$5,206
13.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$31,838
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
$37,590
Kept after tax
$32,384
Worth in national money
$31,838
State rank
47
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alaska pays order clerks a middle wage of $37,590, 47 of 48 states and about 18.58% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, order clerks ranks 402. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $37,590, take-home of $32,384 is worth roughly $31,838 in national money. The average comes to $41,390, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- Alaska's $37,590 median for order clerks places it 47 of 48 states, about 18.58% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, order clerks ranks 402 of 430, in the lowest quartile of the state's distribution. That position is set by the local labor market and is independent of how the state compares nationally for this work.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for order clerks, whose median is $37,590, the adjusted figure of $31,838 differs little from $32,384 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $41,390 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Order Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $33,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $37,590 |
| Top tenth earn over | $51,410 |
| This salary | $37,590 |
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 | $32,384 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $32,384 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,487 |
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 | $37,590 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$1,799 |
| 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 order clerks in Alaska earn under $37,590 and half over. The published range runs $33,340 at the tenth percentile to $51,410 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $32,384, from $37,590, 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 402 of 430 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $31,838, the adjusted value of that $37,590 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 402 of 430 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for order clerks in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $33,340 to $51,410; 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 $32,384 from $37,590. 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 402 of 430 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $31,838 — the adjusted value of that $37,590 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 402 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 $41,390, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $33,340 and the top tenth $51,410, 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 $31,838 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $32,384 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 48 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $41,390. 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 ($33,340 to $51,410) 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 $31,838 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 $32,384 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.