Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$52,166
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,044
16.1% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$51,286
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
$62,210
Kept after tax
$52,166
Worth in national money
$51,286
State rank
7
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for payroll and timekeeping clerks is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $62,210, putting the state 7 of 51 — about 6.78% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 241 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $62,210 the take-home is $52,166, which is worth about $51,286 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $62,990, because the best-paid pull it up.
- For payroll and timekeeping clerks, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $62,210, ranking 7 of 51 and running about 6.78% 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.
- Payroll and timekeeping clerks ranks 241 of 430 occupations in Alaska by median pay, in the middle bands. Within-state and national positions are separate measurements and a job commonly sits in different quartiles on each.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for payroll and timekeeping clerks on its $62,210 median: $52,166 retained after tax becomes $51,286 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $62,990 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $62,210 |
| Top tenth earn over | $78,450 |
| This salary | $62,210 |
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 | $52,166 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $52,166 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,396 |
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 | $62,210 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,898 |
| 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 payroll and timekeeping clerks in Alaska earn under $62,210 and half over. The published range runs $46,790 at the tenth percentile to $78,450 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $52,166 take-home in Alaska comes from $62,210. 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 241 of 430.
- Two cautions on $51,286, the adjusted value of that $62,210 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 241 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for payroll and timekeeping clerks in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $46,790 to $78,450; 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.
- Retained pay of $52,166, from $62,210, 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 241 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 7 of 51 for it.
- This $51,286 adjusted figure, worked from $62,210, 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 241 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 241 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,790 at the bottom tenth to $78,450 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Alaska run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $51,286 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $52,166 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.
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,790 to $78,450) 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 $51,286 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 $52,166 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.