Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$65,019
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$14,851
18.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$63,922
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
$79,870
Kept after tax
$65,019
Worth in national money
$63,922
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $79,870, putting the state 1 of 51 — about 32.96% ahead of the national figure.
- Against other work in Alaska, this sits in the middle: 152 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 $79,870, tax leaves $65,019, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $63,922 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $69,040.
- For security and fire alarm systems installers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $79,870, ranking 1 of 51 and running about 32.96% 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.
- Security and fire alarm systems installers ranks 152 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 security and fire alarm systems installers — median $79,870 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $65,019 retained, $63,922 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $69,040 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $49,990 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $79,870 |
| Top tenth earn over | $79,880 |
| This salary | $79,870 |
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 | $65,019 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $65,019 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,986 |
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 | $79,870 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,125 |
| 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 $79,870. The published range is $49,990 up to $79,880, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $65,019, from $79,870, 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 152 of 430 occupations here.
- Two cautions on $63,922, the adjusted value of that $79,870 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 152 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for security and fire alarm systems installers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $49,990 to $79,880. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $65,019 from $79,870. 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 152 of 430 locally.
- This $63,922 adjusted figure, worked from $79,870, 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 152 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 152 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 $69,040, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $49,990 at the bottom tenth to $79,880 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $63,922 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $65,019 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.
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 $69,040. 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 is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($49,990 to $79,880) 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 $63,922 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 $65,019 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.