Psychiatric Technicians in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$43,681
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$7,969
15.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$42,944
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
$51,650
Kept after tax
$43,681
Worth in national money
$42,944
State rank
10
of 49 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for psychiatric technicians. The middle earner takes $51,650, which ranks 10 of 49 states with published figures. That is about 14.45% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 314 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 $51,650, tax leaves $43,681, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $42,944 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $57,280, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska ranks 10 of 49 states publishing a median for psychiatric technicians, at $51,650 — about 14.45% 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.
- Psychiatric technicians ranks 314 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 psychiatric technicians — median $51,650 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $43,681 retained, $42,944 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $57,280 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Psychiatric Technicians
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $40,270 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $51,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $77,830 |
| This salary | $51,650 |
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 | $43,681 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $43,681 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,006 |
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 | $51,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$2,426 |
| 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 psychiatric technicians in Alaska earn under $51,650 and half over. The published range runs $40,270 at the tenth percentile to $77,830 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $43,681, from $51,650, 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 314 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 $42,944 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 314.
- Figures are distribution medians for psychiatric technicians in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $40,270 to $77,830; 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.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $43,681 from $51,650. 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 314 of 430 locally.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $42,944, worked from $51,650, 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 314 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 $57,280, 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 $40,270, the highest tenth $77,830, and what separates them is experience, employer and what exactly the role does.
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 $42,944 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $43,681 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.
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 $57,280. 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 ($40,270) and the ninetieth ($77,830) 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 $42,944 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 $43,681 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.