Alaska take-home pay by salary (2026)

What the ladder shows

The rate climbs, but never to a cliff

At $30,000 a single Alaska earner keeps 87.1% of gross pay; at $200,000 they keep 74.3%. The whole $170,000 climb adds $122,521 of take-home pay, so about 72.1% of the extra gross survives withholding across the ladder. No step leaves you with less than the step below it.

Which raise is worth the most

The step that keeps the most is $30,000 to $40,000, where 79.8% of the raise reaches you. The least is $120,000 to $150,000 at 68.5%. The difference is which federal bands the extra income lands in — and, above the $184,500 Social Security wage base, whether the 6.2% is still being charged at all.

What Alaska takes, given it has no income tax

Alaska taxes no wage income, but the payslip is not free of state lines: AK SUI (employee) is withheld on wages as an insurance premium rather than as tax. On $30,000 that costs $150.00 a year and on $200,000 it costs $271.00. It appears in no bracket table anywhere, which is why it is the line people miss when they estimate an Alaska salary.

Alaska repealed its income tax in 1980, retroactively, after a court struck down its exemptions

Alaska once withheld income tax from paychecks, and the way it stopped is unusual. Earlier in 1980 the legislature had given most individual taxpayers complete or substantial relief through exemptions based on the number of years each had reported Alaska income. On 4 September 1980 the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that those exemptions violated the equal protection clause of article I, section 1 of the Alaska Constitution. As the legislature put it in its own findings, "the effect of that decision is to reimpose the full income tax burden on all taxpayers."

The legislature chose to remove the tax rather than repair the exemptions. Chapter 2 of the 1980 Second Special Session Laws of Alaska, approved by the governor on 24 September 1980, repealed "the Alaska net income tax on individuals and fiduciaries" retroactive to 1 January 1979, and entitled individuals to a refund of the Alaska income tax paid or withheld for 1979.

The 1980 act did not repeal the chapter that imposed the tax. AS 43.20 is still in the Alaska Statutes, and the section the act added to it, AS 43.20.012, still provides that "the tax imposed by this chapter does not apply to" an individual or a fiduciary.

How these figures were computed

Every figure is computed at build time by the same open paycheck engine behind the Alaska paycheck calculator, from the 2026 tax data file in this repository. Federal tax uses the 2026 brackets after the $16,100 single standard deduction; Social Security is 6.2% up to the $184,500 wage base and Medicare 1.45% with no cap; Alaska levies no income tax on wages, so there is nothing to compute on that line; and AK SUI (employee) is 0.50% of only the first $54,200 of wages. Nothing on this page is hand-typed, and nothing is fetched: a person updates the tax data file when a figure changes and the next build recomputes all 10 rows.

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Every figure on this ladder is in the open dataset behind it, free to reuse with attribution (CC BY 4.0): the full per-rung CSV (all 51 US jurisdictions at every salary level) or one row per state.

Source: Tools Berry, tools-berry.com. 2026 take-home pay computed from IRS and state tax agency rate schedules, deductions and statutes.