Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$63,000
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,001
18.2% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,937
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
$77,000
Kept after tax
$63,000
Worth in national money
$61,937
State rank
13
of 46 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays this job a middle wage of $77,000, ranking 13 of 46 states and sitting about 16.19% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 176 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 $77,000, tax leaves $63,000, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $61,937 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $81,840, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists is $77,000, about 16.19% above the national figure and 13 of 46 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists ranks 176 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 probation officers and correctional treatment specialists — median $77,000 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $63,000 retained, $61,937 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $81,840 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $54,310 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $77,000 |
| Top tenth earn over | $118,020 |
| This salary | $77,000 |
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 | $63,000 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $63,000 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,894 |
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 | $77,000 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,997 |
| 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 $77,000. The published range is $54,310 up to $118,020, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $63,000, worked from $77,000. 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 176 of 430.
- Two cautions on $61,937, the adjusted value of that $77,000 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 176 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for probation officers and correctional treatment specialists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $54,310 to $118,020. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $63,000, on $77,000 for work ranking 176 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 176 of 430 in the state.
- This $61,937 adjusted figure, worked from $77,000, 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 176 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 176 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $81,840, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $54,310, the highest tenth $118,020, 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 $61,937 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $63,000 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?
Because the survey suppresses a figure when too few employers report it. This occupation has published pay in 46 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 $81,840. 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 ($54,310) and the ninetieth ($118,020) 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 $61,937 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 $63,000 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 46 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.