Real Estate Sales Agents in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$71,561
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$17,609
19.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$70,355
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
$89,170
Kept after tax
$71,561
Worth in national money
$70,355
State rank
4
of 48 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays real estate sales agents a middle wage of $89,170, ranking 4 of 48 states and sitting about 68.79% above the national middle.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 114 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 $89,170, tax leaves $71,561, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $70,355 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $88,330.
- Alaska's median for real estate sales agents is $89,170, about 68.79% above the national figure and 4 of 48 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Real estate sales agents ranks 114 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 real estate sales agents — median $89,170 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $71,561 retained, $70,355 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $88,330 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Real Estate Sales Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $52,420 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $89,170 |
| Top tenth earn over | $123,120 |
| This salary | $89,170 |
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 | $71,561 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $71,561 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,287 |
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 | $89,170 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,540 |
| 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 $89,170. The published range is $52,420 up to $123,120, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $71,561 take-home in Alaska comes from $89,170. It is the no-frills case: single filer, standard deduction, nothing set aside before tax. Real circumstances almost always reduce the tax. City and school-district taxes are not counted at all. Locally the work ranks 114 of 430.
- Two cautions on $70,355, the adjusted value of that $89,170 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 114 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for real estate sales agents in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $52,420 to $123,120. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $71,561, from $89,170, assumes a single Alaska filer with the standard deduction and no elective deferrals. Pre-tax retirement or HSA contributions, dependants and itemized deductions all reduce it further; local income taxes, excluded here, would increase it in the states that levy them. This occupation ranks 114 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 4 of 48 for it.
- This $70,355 adjusted figure, worked from $89,170, 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 114 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 114 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
Because one job title covers very different work. The bottom tenth here earn $52,420 and the top tenth $123,120 — experience, employer and specialism separate them, and a single figure hides all three.
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 $70,355 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $71,561 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?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 48 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
What drives the percentile dispersion in this occupation?
Dispersion between the tenth percentile ($52,420) and the ninetieth ($123,120) 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 $70,355 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 $71,561 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 48 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.