Public Safety Telecommunicators in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$55,725
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$10,935
16.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$54,786
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
$66,660
Kept after tax
$55,725
Worth in national money
$54,786
State rank
4
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $66,660, putting the state 4 of 51 — about 25.68% ahead of the national figure.
- Middle of the local pack. Of 430 occupations Alaska reports figures for, this is number 223.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $66,660, tax leaves $55,725, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $54,786 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $69,910, since top earners drag the number up.
- For public safety telecommunicators, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $66,660, ranking 4 of 51 and running about 25.68% above the national midpoint. Nominal advantage of this size is usually, though not always, large enough to survive the state's own tax and price levels.
- In Alaska's occupational distribution, public safety telecommunicators sits at 223 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 public safety telecommunicators — median $66,660 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $55,725 retained, $54,786 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,910 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Public Safety Telecommunicators
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $47,340 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $66,660 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,020 |
| This salary | $66,660 |
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 | $55,725 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $55,725 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,560 |
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 | $66,660 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,115 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $66,660 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $47,340 and the ninetieth is $103,020 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $55,725, worked from $66,660. 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 223 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $54,786 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 223.
- The Alaska median of $66,660 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $47,340 to $103,020. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $55,725, on $66,660 for work ranking 223 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 223 of 430 in the state.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $54,786, worked from $66,660, 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 223 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 $69,910 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?
The label is broader than the work. From $47,340 at the bottom tenth to $103,020 at the top, the same title covers roles that share little beyond a name.
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 $54,786 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $55,725 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?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like 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 $69,910. 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 ($47,340) and the ninetieth ($103,020) 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 $54,786 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 $55,725 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.