Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$77,386
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$20,064
20.6% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$76,081
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
$97,450
Kept after tax
$77,386
Worth in national money
$76,081
State rank
7
of 51 states
What this pays, and what it is worth
- Pay for this job is strong here. Alaska's middle earner gets $97,450, putting the state 7 of 51 — about 31.1% ahead of the national figure.
- This is one of the better-paid jobs in Alaska. It ranks 89 out of 430 occupations the state publishes figures for, which puts it in the top quarter locally.
- Cost of living is unremarkable here. From $97,450, tax leaves $77,386, and adjusting for local prices barely moves it — about $76,081 in comparable terms. Here the average runs under the middle, at $87,330.
- For telecommunications line installers and repairers, Alaska sits in the upper band nationally: a median of $97,450, ranking 7 of 51 and running about 31.1% 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.
- Within Alaska, telecommunications line installers and repairers ranks 89 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 line installers and repairers — median $97,450 — tracks the post-tax figure closely: $77,386 retained, $76,081 adjusted. ⚠️ Neither is a wage; the second describes what the first buys. Mean pay of $87,330 sits under the median, so the lower tail is the longer one.
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Pay band: Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $58,530 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $97,450 |
| Top tenth earn over | $108,140 |
| This salary | $97,450 |
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 | $77,386 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $77,386 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$3,555 |
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 | $97,450 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$4,910 |
| 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 telecommunications line installers and repairers in Alaska earn under $97,450 and half over. The published range runs $58,530 at the tenth percentile to $108,140 at the ninetieth. Experience and employer move an individual a long way inside that.
- In Alaska the take-home figure of $77,386, from $97,450, 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 89 of 430 occupations here.
- One number stands for prices across all of Alaska, which is a simplification — big cities cost far more than small towns. Read $76,081, the adjusted value of that $97,450 median, as a way to compare states fairly, not as a quote for any particular place. The two datasets are also from different years. This job sits at 89 of 430 in the state.
- Figures are distribution medians for telecommunications line installers and repairers in Alaska, not entry or offer rates. The published band runs $58,530 to $108,140; 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.
- Take-home for Alaska is computed for a single filer taking the standard deduction with no dependants and no pre-tax contributions, giving $77,386 from $97,450. 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 89 of 430 locally.
- Price deflation uses one statewide parity for Alaska, so $76,081 — the adjusted value of that $97,450 median — establishes comparability between states rather than accuracy within one. The wage and parity series are dated independently, each following its own publication cycle, and neither is projected forward. This occupation sits at 89 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 $87,330, 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?
Less than you might expect. The bottom tenth earn $58,530 and the top tenth $108,140, so most people doing this work in Alaska sit within a fairly tight band.
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 $76,081 of national purchasing power.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Most of it arrives. $77,386 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 $87,330. 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 ($58,530 to $108,140) 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 $76,081 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 $77,386 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.