Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers in Alaska
May 2025 wages · tax year 2026
You keep
$62,268
after federal, FICA and Alaska tax
Tax takes
$13,692
18.0% of the whole
Worth, in national money
$61,218
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
$75,960
Kept after tax
$62,268
Worth in national money
$61,218
State rank
4
of 47 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 $75,960, ranking 4 of 47 states and sitting about 29.51% above the national middle.
- Ordinary, locally speaking. This job ranks 187 among 430 occupations Alaska publishes pay for.
- No great distortion either way. Alaska costs about what the country costs, so from $75,960, take-home of $62,268 is worth roughly $61,218 in national money. The average lands at $74,710, below the middle of the range.
- Alaska's median for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers is $75,960, about 29.51% above the national figure and 4 of 47 states reporting. Whether that premium reaches the worker depends on the two adjustments below, which is the part a wage table cannot tell you.
- Position 187 of 430 in Alaska places title examiners, abstractors, and searchers in the middle of the state's wage distribution. Because within-state and cross-state rankings measure different things, this figure and the national one above should be read together rather than as a single verdict.
- Price parity in Alaska is near the national base, so for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers, whose median is $75,960, the adjusted figure of $61,218 differs little from $62,268 retained after tax. The state's position for this occupation is therefore set by wage and tax rather than by living costs. At $74,710 the mean undershoots the median, an inversion of the usual skew.
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Pay band: Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers
The state median for this job
| Lowest tenth earn under | $46,710 |
|---|---|
| Half earn under | $75,960 |
| Top tenth earn over | $100,320 |
| This salary | $75,960 |
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 | $62,268 |
|---|---|
| Take-home in Texas | $62,268 |
| Once local prices are leveledBEA price parity | +$2,860 |
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 | $75,960 |
|---|---|
| You could take a cut of | −$3,951 |
| Prices in Texas | 97 vs 102 |
State taxes and state price levels only. No city tax, and no housing market.
Sources and assumptions
- Treat $75,960 as a midpoint for Alaska, not a promise. The tenth percentile is $46,710 and the ninetieth is $100,320 — a wide band, and where you land in it depends on far more than the state.
- One filer, no dependants, no pension contributions — that is the household behind Alaska's $62,268, worked from $75,960. 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 187 of 430.
- Two cautions on $61,218, the adjusted value of that $75,960 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 187 of 430 locally.
- The Alaska median of $75,960 describes the midpoint of a distribution spanning $46,710 to $100,320. Because that spread is typically larger than the interstate spread, a state median is a weak predictor for any individual worker in this occupation.
- The Alaska take-home of $62,268, on $75,960 for work ranking 187 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 187 of 430 in the state.
- This $61,218 adjusted figure, worked from $75,960, 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 187 of 430 in the state. The occupation ranks 187 of 430 locally.
Questions people ask
How much does pay for this job actually vary?
The range here is narrow. From $46,710 at the bottom tenth to $100,320 at the top, pay for this work clusters rather than spreads.
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 $61,218 — the wage did not change, only what it covers.
Is most of this wage taxed away?
Less than people assume. $62,268 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.
Why is this job missing from some states?
A blank is a suppression, not a zero. 47 states have a published figure for this work; the others had too few responses to release one.
What is the dispersion of this occupation's wage distribution?
The tenth-to-ninetieth percentile span ($46,710 to $100,320) 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 $61,218 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 $62,268 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 47 of the fifty-one jurisdictions. Suppression reflects sample size and confidentiality rules, and cannot be read as an absence of employment.