Print Binding and Finishing Workers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$48,140
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$9,060
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$47,329
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
$57,200
Kept after tax
$48,140
Worth in national money
$47,329
State rank
3
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for print binding and finishing workers. The middle earner takes $57,200, which ranks 3 of 50 states with published figures. That is about 35.26% above the national middle.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 430 occupations Alaska reports figures for, this is number 273.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $57,200, tax leaves $48,140, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $47,329 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $48,450.
- Alaska ranks 3 of 50 states publishing a median for print binding and finishing workers, at $57,200 — about 35.26% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- In Alaska's occupational distribution, print binding and finishing workers sits at 273 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for print binding and finishing workers — median $57,200 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $48,140 retained, $47,329 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $48,450 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Print Binding and Finishing Workers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $24,770 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $57,200 |
| Top tenth earn over | $73,420 |
| This salary | $57,200 |
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 | $48,140 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $48,140 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,211 |
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 | $57,200 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,674 |
| 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 print binding and finishing workers in Alaska earn under $57,200 and half over. The published range runs $24,770 at the tenth percentile to $73,420 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $48,140 take-home in Alaska comes from $57,200. 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 273 of 430.
- Two cautions on $47,329, the adjusted value of that $57,200 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 273 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for print binding and finishing workers in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $24,770 to $73,420; 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 $48,140, from $57,200, 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 273 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 3 of 50 for it.
- This $47,329 adjusted figure, worked from $57,200, 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 273 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 273 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 $48,450 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?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $24,770, the highest tenth $73,420, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $47,329 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $48,140 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
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 $48,450. 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 ($24,770) and the ninetieth ($73,420) 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 $47,329 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 $48,140 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.