Alaska · BLS May 2025
Also called delivery driver. SOC 53-3031.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 1,270 driver/sales workers working in Alaska. Here is what they are paid, what the median leaves after federal and FICA tax, and what that is worth against local prices.
Median pay · Alaska
$48,420A year, or $23.28 an hour.| Percentile | Annual | Hourly |
|---|---|---|
| 10th percentileEntry and lowest-paid | $35,800 | $17.21 |
| 25th percentile | $42,990 | $20.67 |
| MedianHalf earn more, half less | $48,420 | $23.28 |
| 75th percentile | $54,080 | $26.00 |
| 90th percentileMost experienced and senior | $61,760 | $29.69 |
| MeanThe average, pulled up by the top | $48,120 | $23.14 |
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A $48,420 salary in Alaska, for one single filer taking the standard deduction in 2026.
Prices in Alaska sit at 102.4 against a national average of 100, so $48,420 earned here buys what $47,304 buys at national average prices.
Common questions
The median wage for driver/sales workers in Alaska is $48,420 a year, or $23.28 an hour.
Half earn more than that and half earn less. The figure comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational wage survey for May 2025.
On the median wage of $48,420, one filer taking the standard deduction keeps about $41,085 a year, or roughly $3,424 a month.
That is after federal and FICA tax, an effective rate of 15.2%.
Alaska levies no state income tax on wages, so nothing is withheld for it.
Yes. The median in Alaska is 24.9% above the national median of $38,770.
Nominal pay is only half the comparison: prices in Alaska sit at 102.4 against a national 100, so the gap in what the money buys is different from the gap in the salary.
It is 0.52 times the median household income of $92,788. A household often has more than one earner, so a single salary at this level goes further than the ratio alone suggests.
Prices in Alaska run at 102.4 against a national average of 100, with rents at 93.8, so $48,420 here buys about what $47,304 buys at national average prices.
The top tenth earn $61,760 a year or more, against $35,800 at the bottom tenth.
Experience, specialism, employer and the part of Alaska someone works in all move a wage inside that range; the survey reports the spread, not the reason for it.
The survey counted 1,270 of these jobs in Alaska for May 2025.
That makes the occupation 48% more concentrated here than in the country as a whole. It counts wage and salary jobs, so the self-employed are outside it.
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