Paramedics in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$59,384
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$12,476
17.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$58,382
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
$71,860
Kept after tax
$59,384
Worth in national money
$58,382
State rank
10
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays paramedics a middle wage of $71,860, ranking 10 of 51 states and sitting about 18.58% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. Paramedics ranks 202 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $71,860, tax leaves $59,384, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $58,382 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $75,410, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for paramedics is $71,860, about 18.58% above the national figure and 10 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.
- Position 202 of 430 in Alaska places paramedics 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for paramedics — median $71,860 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $59,384 retained, $58,382 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $75,410 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Paramedics
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $53,820 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $71,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,550 |
| This salary | $71,860 |
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 | $59,384 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $59,384 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,728 |
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 | $71,860 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,768 |
| 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 $71,860. The published range is $53,820 up to $103,550, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $59,384 take-home in Alaska comes from $71,860. 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 202 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $58,382, the adjusted value of that $71,860 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 202 of 430 in the state.
- Reported values are medians; for paramedics in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $53,820 to $103,550. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $59,384, from $71,860, 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 202 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 10 of 51 for it.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $58,382 — the adjusted value of that $71,860 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 202 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 $75,410, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $53,820 at the bottom tenth to $103,550 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $58,382 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $59,384 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
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 $75,410. 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 ($53,820 to $103,550) 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 $58,382 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 $59,384 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.
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.