Speech-Language Pathologists in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$81,058
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$21,612
21.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$79,692
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
$102,670
Kept after tax
$81,058
Worth in national money
$79,692
State rank
8
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for speech-language pathologists is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $102,670, putting the state 8 of 51 — about 4.9% ahead of the national figure.
- Within Alaska this is well-paid work. Of 430 occupations with published figures in the state, speech-language pathologists ranks 69 — in the top quarter of everything people do there.
- Prices here sit close to the national average, so the adjustment changes little. From $102,670 the take-home is $81,058, which is worth about $79,692 in comparable money. Tax does most of the work here, not cost of living. The average is lower, $100,320, so pay clusters nearer the top than usual.
- For speech-language pathologists, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $102,670, ranking 8 of 51 and running about 4.9% 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.
- Ranked against every occupation Alaska publishes a median for, speech-language pathologists sits 69 of 430 — the upper quartile of the state's wage distribution. National standing and within-state standing are separate questions, and a job can occupy very different positions on each.
- Alaska's price level is near the national average, so price deflation is close to neutral for speech-language pathologists on its $102,670 median: $81,058 retained after tax becomes $79,692 in national-average terms. Where the price adjustment is small, the tax stack is the dominant determinant of the real outcome. The mean of $100,320 falls below the median, a left skew that is uncommon in wage data.
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Pay band: Speech-Language Pathologists
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $79,700 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $102,670 |
| Top tenth earn over | $125,950 |
| This salary | $102,670 |
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 | $81,058 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $81,058 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,723 |
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 | $102,670 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$5,143 |
| 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 $102,670. The published range is $79,700 up to $125,950, so an individual figure can sit a long way from the middle in either direction.
- That $81,058 take-home in Alaska comes from $102,670. 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 69 of 430.
- Two cautions on $79,692, the adjusted value of that $102,670 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 69 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for speech-language pathologists in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $79,700 to $125,950. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- Retained pay of $81,058, from $102,670, 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 69 of 430 locally, and the state ranks 8 of 51 for it.
- This $79,692 adjusted figure, worked from $102,670, 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 69 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 69 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $79,700 at the tenth percentile, $125,950 at the ninetieth.
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 $79,692 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $81,058 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.
Can I compare this job across every state?
This occupation is published everywhere — all 51 of them — so comparing states measures real differences rather than gaps in the data.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($79,700 to $125,950) 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 $79,692 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 $81,058 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.