Sales Managers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$78,378
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$20,482
20.7% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$77,056
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
$98,860
Kept after tax
$78,378
Worth in national money
$77,056
State rank
49
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for sales managers is on the low side in Alaska. The middle earner gets $98,860. That is 49 of 50 states, and about 33.32% under the national figure. Whether that matters depends on what things cost here.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 83 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $98,860, tax leaves $78,378, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $77,056 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $113,120, since top earners drag the number up.
- For sales managers, Alaska sits in the lower band at $98,860, ranking 49 of 50 and trailing the national median by about 33.32%. Nominal rankings routinely invert once tax and regional price level are applied, so this position should not be read as the conclusion.
- Within Alaska, sales managers ranks 83 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.
- Because Alaska sits close to the national price level, the real-terms figure for sales managers — median $98,860 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $78,378 retained, $77,056 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $113,120 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Sales Managers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $70,370 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $98,860 |
| Top tenth earn over | $171,700 |
| This salary | $98,860 |
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 | $78,378 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $78,378 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,600 |
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 | $98,860 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,973 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $98,860 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $70,370 and the ninetieth is $171,700 — 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 $78,378, worked from $98,860. 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 83 of 430.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $77,056, the adjusted value of that $98,860 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 83 of 430 in the state.
- The Alaska median of $98,860 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $70,370 to $171,700. 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 $78,378, on $98,860 for work ranking 83 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 83 of 430 in the state.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $77,056 — the adjusted value of that $98,860 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 83 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
It is the midpoint, not the average. The average here is $113,120, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
Why is the pay range for this job so wide?
One title, many jobs. The lowest tenth take $70,370, the highest tenth $171,700, 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 $77,056 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $78,378 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
Why is this job missing from some states?
The survey withholds small samples rather than publish an unreliable number. Pay appears for 50 states here, and a missing state means too few reports, not no jobs.
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 $113,120. 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 ($70,370) and the ninetieth ($171,700) 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 $77,056 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 $78,378 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.