Parts Salespersons in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$39,245
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$6,885
14.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$38,584
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
$46,130
Kept after tax
$39,245
Worth in national money
$38,584
State rank
8
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for parts salespersons is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $46,130, putting the state 8 of 50 — about 19.41% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Alaska this is lower-paid work. Of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, parts salespersons ranks 359. That is the bottom quarter locally, whatever the national comparison says.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $46,130 the take-home is $39,245, which is worth about $38,584 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $50,180, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For parts salespersons, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $46,130, ranking 8 of 50 and running about 19.41% 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.
- Against every occupation Alaska reports, parts salespersons ranks 359 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.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for parts salespersons on its $46,130 median: $39,245 retained after tax becomes $38,584 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $50,180 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Parts Salespersons
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,460 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $46,130 |
| Top tenth earn over | $69,250 |
| This salary | $46,130 |
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 | $39,245 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $39,245 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$1,803 |
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 | $46,130 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,180 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $46,130 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $36,460 and the ninetieth is $69,250 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $39,245, worked from $46,130. 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 359 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $38,584, the adjusted value of that $46,130 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 359 of 430 in the state.
- The Alaska median of $46,130 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $36,460 to $69,250. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $39,245, on $46,130 for work ranking 359 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 359 of 430 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $38,584 — the adjusted value of that $46,130 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 359 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 $50,180 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $36,460 at the tenth percentile, $69,250 at the ninetieth.
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 $38,584 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $39,245 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 50 states — the rest are withheld to protect confidentiality, which is not the same as nobody doing the work there.
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 $50,180. 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 ($36,460 to $69,250) 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 $38,584 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 $39,245 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 50 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.