Protective Service Workers, All Other in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$47,272
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$8,848
15.8% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$46,475
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
$56,120
Kept after tax
$47,272
Worth in national money
$46,475
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $56,120, which ranks 8 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 31.92% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 286 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 $56,120, tax leaves $47,272, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $46,475 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $55,180.
- Alaska ranks 8 of 51 states publishing a median for protective service workers, all other, at $56,120 — about 31.92% 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.
- Protective service workers, all other ranks 286 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 protective service workers, all other — median $56,120 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $47,272 retained, $46,475 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $55,180 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Protective Service Workers, All Other
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $38,210 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $56,120 |
| Top tenth earn over | $76,000 |
| This salary | $56,120 |
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 | $47,272 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $47,272 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,171 |
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 | $56,120 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,626 |
| 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 $56,120. The published range is $38,210 up to $76,000, 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 $47,272, worked from $56,120. 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 286 of 430.
- Two cautions on $46,475, the adjusted value of that $56,120 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 286 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for protective service workers, all other in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $38,210 to $76,000. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $47,272, on $56,120 for work ranking 286 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 286 of 430 in the state.
- This $46,475 adjusted figure, worked from $56,120, 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 286 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 286 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $38,210 at the tenth percentile, $76,000 at the ninetieth.
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 $46,475 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $47,272 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 ($38,210 to $76,000) 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 $46,475 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 $47,272 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.