School Psychologists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,283
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$19,177
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,013
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
$94,460
Kept after tax
$75,283
Worth in national money
$74,013
State rank
15
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for school psychologists. The middle earner takes $94,460, which ranks 15 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 1.59% above the national middle.
- Locally, this pays well. Among 430 occupations Alaska reports, school psychologists comes in at 97 — comfortably in the upper quarter.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $94,460 the take-home is $75,283, which is worth about $74,013 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $91,810, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- Alaska ranks 15 of 51 states publishing a median for school psychologists, at $94,460 — about 1.59% above the national median. A state's position on nominal pay is the figure wage tables report and the least informative of the three on this page, because it survives neither the tax adjustment nor the price adjustment intact for most occupations.
- School psychologists ranks 97 of 430 occupations by median in Alaska, in the top quartile. Within-state position is largely independent of national position, so this holds regardless of how the state compares to others for the same work.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for school psychologists on its $94,460 median: $75,283 retained after tax becomes $74,013 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $91,810 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: School Psychologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $67,140 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $94,460 |
| Top tenth earn over | $104,160 |
| This salary | $94,460 |
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 | $75,283 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $75,283 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,458 |
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 | $94,460 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,776 |
| 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 $94,460. The published range is $67,140 up to $104,160, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $75,283, worked from $94,460. 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 97 of 430.
- Two cautions on $74,013, the adjusted value of that $94,460 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 97 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for school psychologists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $67,140 to $104,160. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $75,283, on $94,460 for work ranking 97 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 97 of 430 in the state.
- This $74,013 adjusted figure, worked from $94,460, 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 97 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 97 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $67,140 at the bottom tenth to $104,160 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $74,013 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $75,283 lands after tax, since there is no state income tax on wages here — though the federal floor is identical in every state.
Can I compare this job across every state?
All 51 jurisdictions report this work, which makes the ranking a like-for-like one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($67,140 to $104,160) 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 $74,013 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 $75,283 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.