Alaska nonmetropolitan area Salaries
BLS nonmetropolitan reporting area wages for Alaska nonmetropolitan area (May 2025)
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Alaska nonmetropolitan area
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary publishes $45,560 here versus $36,780 nationally (+23.9%; 2,050metro-area jobs). Next is Maintenance and Repair Workers, General at $61,370 locally versus $49,590 nationally (+23.8%).
- Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary$45,560 in Alaska nonmetropolitan area sits 23.9% above the national Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary median of $36,780 (2,050 published local jobs).
- Maintenance and Repair Workers, General$61,370 in Alaska nonmetropolitan area sits 23.8% above the national Maintenance and Repair Workers, General median of $49,590 (2,520 published local jobs).
- Cashiers$35,620 in Alaska nonmetropolitan area sits 8.3% above the national Cashiers median of $32,880 (2,250 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$111,060 in Alaska nonmetropolitan area sits 5.0% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (2,020 published local jobs).
Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Alaska nonmetropolitan area; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 0200006 · Alaska nonmetropolitan area $73K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-UNK · OCC-MID · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-UNK · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #28/528
- RPP-UNK RPP n/a
- OCC-MID 346 occs
- TOP-LEAD Emergency Medi… · $453K
- EMP-MIX Construction…
- TREND-UNK Pay chg n/a
- PHOTO-FINISH Santa Rosa-Petal…
- BOOK-FULL 325 rows · May 2025
Read with Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA ($8 on published-row mean) · Understanding BLS wage data
Instrument codes from this MSA’s OEWS published-row mean, BEA RPP, occupation book, employment lead, All Occupations pay change, and nearest peer — not a moving recommendation.
Published-row mean neighbourhood around Alaska nonmetropolitan area
Largest published OEWS rows in this nonmetropolitan area
Construction Managers and Medical and Health Services Managers lead published employment inside Alaska nonmetropolitan area's top-pay sample — order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Construction Managers 620 jobs · $151,240
- 2. Medical and Health Services Managers 560 jobs · $131,100
- 3. Chief Executives 290 jobs · $157,890
- 4. Computer and Information Systems Managers 260 jobs · $127,440
- 5. Natural Sciences Managers 260 jobs · $126,920
- 6. Dental Hygienists 230 jobs · $132,690
- 7. Lawyers 220 jobs · $159,730
- 8. Nurse Practitioners 220 jobs · $140,020
- 9. Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers 190 jobs · $124,520
- 10. Architectural and Engineering Managers 180 jobs · $170,250
- 11. Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers 180 jobs · $124,630
- 12. Public Relations Managers 170 jobs · $133,190
- 13. Physician Assistants 160 jobs · $139,010
- 14. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 160 jobs · $129,140
- 15. Pharmacists 150 jobs · $172,080
- 16. Emergency Medicine Physicians 110 jobs · $452,620
- 17. Dentists, General 100 jobs · $237,560
- 18. Massage Therapists 90 jobs · $135,630
Occupations Tracked
346
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$72,627
employment-weighted, 325 complete rows
Top Salary
$452,620
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Top-pay occupations in Alaska nonmetropolitan area, by employment
Same top-pay sample as the salary ranking, sorted by published local jobs so the title sequence follows the OEWS mix.
Lowest Paying Jobs in Alaska nonmetropolitan area
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,330 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,440 |
| Bartenders | $29,650 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,380 |
| Cooks, Fast Food | $31,840 |
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | $32,680 |
| Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers | $33,790 |
| Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants | $34,230 |
| Dishwashers | $34,580 |
| Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers | $35,180 |
Other BLS Wage Areas in AK
Other metropolitan or nonmetropolitan OEWS areas assigned to the same state. Cross-state pay and employment peers live in Nationwide similar metros below.
Nationwide metros with similar published-row mean pay or employment scale
Two OEWS peer sets outside AK. Same-state wage areas above stay geographic; these neighborhoods are cross-state nearest neighbors on employment-weighted published-row mean wage ($72,627 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Peers are nearest-neighbor matches on BLS OEWS employment-weighted published-row mean wage and summed occupation employment. Employment peers exclude metros already listed in the mean-wage column so the two link sets stay distinct. Mean wage here is not a worker-level median.
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