Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$57,801
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$11,809
17.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$56,826
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
$69,610
Kept after tax
$57,801
Worth in national money
$56,826
State rank
17
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $69,610, putting the state 17 of 51 — about 0.54% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 214 of 430 occupations with published pay. Solidly ordinary for the state, which is not the same as ordinary nationally.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $69,610, take-home of $57,801 is worth roughly $56,826 in national money. The average comes to $72,390, above the middle, thanks to the top of the range.
- For sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $69,610, ranking 17 of 51 and running about 0.54% 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.
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel ranks 214 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.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel, whose median is $69,610, the adjusted figure of $56,826 differs little from $57,801 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $72,390 the mean overshoots the median — the usual right-skewed shape.
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Pay band: Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $36,930 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $69,610 |
| Top tenth earn over | $102,080 |
| This salary | $69,610 |
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 | $57,801 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $57,801 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,655 |
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 | $69,610 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,598 |
| 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 sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in Alaska earn under $69,610 and half over. The published range runs $36,930 at the tenth percentile to $102,080 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- That $57,801 take-home in Alaska comes from $69,610. 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 214 of 430.
- The wage data and the price data come from different years. That is how each is published. The price adjustment behind $56,826 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 214.
- Figures are distribution medians for sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $36,930 to $102,080; 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.
- Retained pay of $57,801, from $69,610, 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 214 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 17 of 51 for it.
- Wage and price series carry different reference periods, each published on its own schedule. The real-terms figure of $56,826, worked from $69,610, 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 214 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 $72,390, 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 $36,930, the highest tenth $102,080, 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 $56,826 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $57,801 survives, because Alaska levies no wage income tax. The federal share does not change with the state you work in.
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 $72,390. 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 ($36,930) and the ninetieth ($102,080) 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 $56,826 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 $57,801 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.