Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$76,260
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$19,590
20.4% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$74,975
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
$95,850
Kept after tax
$76,260
Worth in national money
$74,975
State rank
1
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Alaska is one of the better-paying states for this job. The middle earner takes $95,850, which ranks 1 of 51 states with published figures. That is about 50.02% above the national middle.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 92 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $95,850, tax leaves $76,260, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $74,975 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $84,980.
- Alaska ranks 1 of 51 states publishing a median for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers, at $95,850 — about 50.02% 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.
- Within Alaska, telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers ranks 92 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 telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers — median $95,850 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $76,260 retained, $74,975 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $84,980 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $56,150 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $95,850 |
| Top tenth earn over | $103,280 |
| This salary | $95,850 |
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 | $76,260 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $76,260 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,503 |
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 | $95,850 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,838 |
| 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 $95,850. The published range is $56,150 up to $103,280, 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 $76,260, worked from $95,850. 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 92 of 430.
- Two cautions on $74,975, the adjusted value of that $95,850 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 92 of 430 locally.
- Reported values are medians; for telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers in Alaska the tenth-to-ninetieth percentile band is $56,150 to $103,280. Neither the median nor the band is an offer rate, and neither accounts for hours, shift differentials or overtime.
- The Alaska take-home of $76,260, on $95,850 for work ranking 92 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 92 of 430 in the state.
- This $74,975 adjusted figure, worked from $95,850, 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 92 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 92 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 $84,980, dragged up by high earners; the middle figure describes a typical worker better.
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
Most of these jobs pay within a close range — $56,150 at the tenth percentile, $103,280 at the ninetieth.
Does a bigger number here mean I am better off?
Not on its own. Prices in Alaska run above the national level, so the same dollars buy less here. Adjusted for that, this pay is worth $74,975 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $76,260 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?
Yes for this one. Pay is published in all 51 jurisdictions, so a state-to-state comparison here rests on the same survey everywhere rather than on a patchwork.
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 $84,980. 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 ($56,150 to $103,280) 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 $74,975 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 $76,260 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.