Personal Financial Advisors in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$64,188
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,502
18.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,106
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
$78,690
Kept after tax
$64,188
Worth in national money
$63,106
State rank
40
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for personal financial advisors is on the low side in Alaska. The middle earner gets $78,690. That is 40 of 49 states, and about 25.11% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 162 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $78,690, tax leaves $64,188, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,106 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $117,610, since top earners drag the number up.
- For personal financial advisors, Alaska sits in the lower band at $78,690, ranking 40 of 49 and trailing the national median by about 25.11%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Personal financial advisors ranks 162 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for personal financial advisors — median $78,690 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $64,188 retained, $63,106 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $117,610 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Personal Financial Advisors
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $50,790 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $78,690 |
| Top tenth earn over | $156,830 |
| This salary | $78,690 |
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 | $64,188 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $64,188 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,948 |
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 | $78,690 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,073 |
| 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 $78,690. The published range is $50,790 up to $156,830, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $64,188, from $78,690, 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 162 of 430 occupations here.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $63,106 uses one figure for the whole of Alaska. A city and a rural county there can differ by more than two states do. Out of 430 occupations the state publishes, this one sits at 162.
- Reported values are medians; for personal financial advisors in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $50,790 to $156,830. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $64,188 from $78,690. 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 162 of 430 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $63,106, worked from $78,690, deflates by a statewide parity that conceals substantial intra-state variation, concentrated in housing — so it supports comparison between states rather than the pricing of a move to a particular Alaska address, on work sitting at 162 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 $117,610 because a long tail of high pay lifts it, so the two answer different questions.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $50,790 and the top tenth $156,830 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $63,106 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $64,188 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 49 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 $117,610. 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 drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($50,790) and the ninetieth ($156,830) exceeds the family median dispersion. SOC codes aggregate roles differing in seniority, industry and specialisation, and BLS does not disaggregate below the detailed occupation level, so within-title variance is not separable from the published series.
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 $63,106 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 $64,188 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 49 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.