Painters, Construction and Maintenance in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$51,177
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,803
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$50,315
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
$60,980
Kept after tax
$51,177
Worth in national money
$50,315
State rank
3
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for painters, construction and maintenance is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $60,980, putting the state 3 of 51 — about 23.44% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 430 occupations Alaska reports figures for, this is number 252.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $60,980 the take-home is $51,177, which is worth about $50,315 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $64,220, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For painters, construction and maintenance, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $60,980, ranking 3 of 51 and running about 23.44% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- In Alaska's occupational distribution, painters, construction and maintenance sits at 252 of 430 — neither quartile. This local position is what a resident compares against, and it is determined by the state's own labor market rather than by national patterns for this occupation.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for painters, construction and maintenance on its $60,980 median: $51,177 retained after tax becomes $50,315 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $64,220 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Painters, Construction and Maintenance
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $43,880 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $60,980 |
| Top tenth earn over | $85,440 |
| This salary | $60,980 |
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 | $51,177 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $51,177 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,351 |
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 | $60,980 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,843 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $60,980 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $43,880 and the ninetieth is $85,440 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- That $51,177 take-home in Alaska comes from $60,980. 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 252 of 430.
- Two cautions on $50,315, the adjusted value of that $60,980 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 252 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $60,980 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $43,880 to $85,440. 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 $51,177, from $60,980, 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 252 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 51 for it.
- This $50,315 adjusted figure, worked from $60,980, 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 252 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 252 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 $64,220 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 $43,880 at the bottom tenth to $85,440 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $50,315 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $51,177 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?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $64,220. 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 ($43,880 to $85,440) 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 $50,315 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 $51,177 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.