Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$75,402
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$19,228
20.3% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,131
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
$94,630
Kept after tax
$75,402
Worth in national money
$74,131
State rank
2
of 50 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- This is a good state for the work. Alaska pays this job a middle wage of $94,630, ranking 2 of 50 states and sitting about 51.72% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 95 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $94,630, tax leaves $75,402, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $74,131 in comparable terms. Averages run higher here, $98,490, since top earners drag the number up.
- Alaska's median for tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents is $94,630, about 51.72% above the national figure and 2 of 50 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Within Alaska, tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents ranks 95 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 tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents — median $94,630 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $75,402 retained, $74,131 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $98,490 exceeds the median, so the upper tail is doing the work.
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Pay band: Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $65,550 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $94,630 |
| Top tenth earn over | $132,450 |
| This salary | $94,630 |
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 | $75,402 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $75,402 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,463 |
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 | $94,630 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,784 |
| 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 tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents in Alaska earn under $94,630 and half over. The published range runs $65,550 at the tenth percentile to $132,450 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $75,402, worked from $94,630. 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 95 of 430.
- Two cautions on $74,131, the adjusted value of that $94,630 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 95 of 430 locally.
- Figures are distribution medians for tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $65,550 to $132,450; 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.
- The Alaska take-home of $75,402, on $94,630 for work ranking 95 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 95 of 430 in the state.
- This $74,131 adjusted figure, worked from $94,630, 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 95 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 95 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
Is this the average pay for the job?
No — it is the middle. Half of these workers earn more and half earn less. The average is $98,490, pulled upward by the top of the range, which is why the middle is the fairer number to plan against.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $65,550 at the tenth percentile, $132,450 at the ninetieth.
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 $74,131 rather than its face figure.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
No. $75,402 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?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 50 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release 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 $98,490. 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 ($65,550 to $132,450) 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 $74,131 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 $75,402 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.