Purchasing Managers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$89,486
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$25,164
21.9% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$87,977
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
$114,650
Kept after tax
$89,486
Worth in national money
$87,977
State rank
48
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- The nominal figure here is modest. Alaska pays purchasing managers a middle wage of $114,650, 48 of 50 states and about 22.58% below the national middle. Hold that thought until the adjusted numbers.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 42 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $114,650 the take-home is $89,486, which is worth about $87,977 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is higher, $116,560, because the best-paid pull it up.
- Alaska's $114,650 median for purchasing managers places it 48 of 50 states, about 22.58% below national. Because both the tax and price adjustments tend to favor lower-nominal states, this ranking is the least stable of the three reported here.
- Within Alaska, purchasing managers ranks 42 of 430 occupations by median pay, placing it in the top quartile of the local distribution. This is the comparison a resident actually makes — against neighbors rather than against the same job elsewhere.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for purchasing managers on its $114,650 median: $89,486 retained after tax becomes $87,977 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $116,560 sits above the median, the right skew typical of wage data.
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Pay band: Purchasing Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $80,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $114,650 |
| Top tenth earn over | $160,650 |
| This salary | $114,650 |
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 | $89,486 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $89,486 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$4,110 |
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 | $114,650 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,678 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $114,650 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $80,420 and the ninetieth is $160,650 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $89,486, from $114,650, 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 42 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $87,977, the adjusted value of that $114,650 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 42 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $114,650 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $80,420 to $160,650. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $89,486 from $114,650. 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 42 of 430 locally.
- This $87,977 adjusted figure, worked from $114,650, 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 42 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 42 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $80,420 and the top tenth $160,650, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $87,977 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $89,486 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?
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.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($80,420 to $160,650) 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 $87,977 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 $89,486 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.