Anchorage, AK Salaries
Highest published occupation medians in Anchorage, AK - BLS OEWS May 2025
Observed metro pay change
What changed, BLS OEWS 2024–2025
- BLS's published All Occupations median in Anchorage, AK moved from $59,060 in May 2024 to $60,200 in May 2025 (+1.9%).
- Across the 393 metros priced in both releases, the median place changed +3.1%.
- Anchorage, AK sits -1.2 pp behind that median, nominal dollars, no price deflator applied.
Based on wage level, year-over-year wage growth, and regional-price-parity-adjusted purchasing power from BLS and BEA sources, not job availability, industry mix, or day-to-day livability.
Waiters and Waitresses shows the widest metro-area vs national median gap in Anchorage, AK
Waiters and Waitresses publishes $26,080 here versus $35,230 nationally (-26.0%; 2,340metro-area jobs). Next is Registered Nurses at $115,290 locally versus $97,550 nationally (+18.2%).
- Waiters and Waitresses$26,080 in Anchorage, AK sits 26.0% below the national Waiters and Waitresses median of $35,230 (2,340 published local jobs).
- Registered Nurses$115,290 in Anchorage, AK sits 18.2% above the national Registered Nurses median of $97,550 (4,990 published local jobs).
- General and Operations Managers$120,030 in Anchorage, AK sits 13.5% above the national General and Operations Managers median of $105,770 (3,290 published local jobs).
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand$44,510 in Anchorage, AK sits 10.6% above the national Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand median of $40,240 (2,620 published local jobs).
Waiters and Waitresses and the other occupations above are descriptive OEWS endpoints for Anchorage, AK; they are not findings about taxes, employers, or worker experience.
BLS OEWS metro wage desk
MSA 11260 · Anchorage, AK $74K mean
MEAN-MEGA · RPP-ELEV · OCC-MOST · TOP-LEAD · EMP-MIX · TREND-INLINE · PHOTO-FINISH · BOOK-FULL
- MEAN-MEGA #23/528
- RPP-ELEV 105.4
- OCC-MOST 423 occs
- TOP-LEAD Emergency Medi… · $472K
- EMP-MIX Airline Pilo…
- TREND-INLINE -1.2 pp
- PHOTO-FINISH Minneapolis-St.…
- BOOK-FULL 411 rows · May 2025
Read with Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI (+$219 on published-row mean) · Highest-paying careers
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 Anchorage, AK
Employment scale inside Anchorage, AK's top-pay list
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers and Construction Managers lead published employment inside Anchorage, AK's top-pay sample, order follows OEWS job counts, not median wage.
- 1. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 1,270 jobs · $232,240
- 2. Construction Managers 900 jobs · $137,980
- 3. Lawyers 780 jobs · $153,590
- 4. Architectural and Engineering Managers 590 jobs · $161,800
- 5. Computer and Information Systems Managers 550 jobs · $137,990
- 6. Physician Assistants 460 jobs · $152,710
- 7. Nurse Practitioners 410 jobs · $157,430
- 8. Pharmacists 360 jobs · $162,980
- 9. Chief Executives 290 jobs · $183,110
- 10. Air Traffic Controllers 280 jobs · $160,970
- 11. Family Medicine Physicians 250 jobs · $299,340
- 12. Petroleum Engineers 200 jobs · $212,240
- 13. Dentists, General 180 jobs · $228,030
- 14. Physicians, All Other 170 jobs · $353,870
- 15. Industrial Engineers 110 jobs · $171,910
- 16. First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 110 jobs · $161,100
- 17. Engineers, All Other 90 jobs · $145,500
- 18. General Internal Medicine Physicians 80 jobs · $366,650
Occupations Tracked
423
with wage data
Published-Row Mean
$74,014
employment-weighted, 411 complete rows
Top Salary
$472,140
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Cost of Living
105.4
5% above US avg
Highest Paying Jobs in Anchorage, AK
| # | Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Emergency Medicine Physicians | $472,140 |
| 2 | General Internal Medicine Physicians | $366,650 |
| 3 | Neurologists | $354,760 |
| 4 | Physicians, All Other | $353,870 |
| 5 | Psychiatrists | $342,170 |
| 6 | Family Medicine Physicians | $299,340 |
| 7 | Pediatricians, General | $251,830 |
| 8 | Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers | $232,240 |
| 9 | Dentists, General | $228,030 |
| 10 | Petroleum Engineers | $212,240 |
| 11 | Chief Executives | $183,110 |
| 12 | Industrial Engineers | $171,910 |
| 13 | Business Teachers, Postsecondary | $168,440 |
| 14 | Optometrists | $167,000 |
| 15 | Pharmacists | $162,980 |
| 16 | Architectural and Engineering Managers | $161,800 |
| 17 | First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives | $161,100 |
| 18 | Air Traffic Controllers | $160,970 |
| 19 | Nurse Practitioners | $157,430 |
| 20 | Lawyers | $153,590 |
| 21 | Physician Assistants | $152,710 |
| 22 | Engineers, All Other | $145,500 |
| 23 | Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers | $141,080 |
| 24 | Computer and Information Systems Managers | $137,990 |
| 25 | Construction Managers | $137,980 |
Lowest Paying Jobs in Anchorage, AK
| Occupation | Median Salary |
|---|---|
| Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers | $25,600 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | $26,080 |
| Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants | $26,270 |
| Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers | $27,040 |
| Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop | $30,140 |
| Teaching Assistants, Except Postsecondary | $30,690 |
| Bartenders | $31,200 |
| Dishwashers | $31,940 |
| Baggage Porters and Bellhops | $32,150 |
| Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists | $32,150 |
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 ($74,014 here) and summed published employment.
Similar mean wage
Nearest other metros by employment-weighted published-row annual mean wage.
Similar employment scale
Nearest headcount peers (floor 100,000 summed published jobs), distinct from the mean-wage column.
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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How to use Anchorage, AK wage figures in a real decision
- Emergency Medicine Physicians leads published medians in Anchorage, AK at $472,140/year; open the occupation for percentile bands and state rows. Emergency Medicine Physicians
- The employment-weighted published-row mean of $74,014 adjusts to about $70,209 on a national-price basis at BEA RPP 105.4. Salary vs cost of living
- Compare this metropolitan statistical area against the statewide occupation table for AK before treating one geography as the other. State wage page
BLS OEWS estimates reflect the May 2025 reference period; small occupation-area cells can be suppressed, and figures are not employer offers.
Source data and WageDex calculations are identified in context on this page. Occupation rows use BLS OEWS May 2025. The metro benchmark is WageDex's employment-weighted mean of published occupation means; where BEA RPP is available, the price-level figure divides that benchmark by the published area parity. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.