Alaska Paycheck Calculator 2026

How this calculator works

Alaska has no state income tax, so most of what leaves your paycheck is federal. But it is not a three-line paycheck the way Texas or Tennessee is. Four deductions apply here:

• Federal income tax, on your pay after the standard deduction, at the 2026 brackets.
• Social Security, 6.2% of gross pay up to the annual wage base.
• Medicare, 1.45% of gross pay with no cap, plus 0.9% on pay above $200,000.
• Alaska Unemployment Insurance, employee share: 0.50% of gross pay up to $54,200 of wages, capped at $271 a year.

That fourth line is the reason this page exists separately from Texas or Tennessee. Alaska's Department of Labor and Workforce Development publishes an employer rate and an employee rate side by side for 2026, and says the total contribution is the sum of the two. Every other no-income-tax state this site publishes — Texas, Tennessee and Nevada — assigns unemployment insurance to the employer only, so none of it ever reaches an employee's pay stub. Alaska is the exception.

Alaska's income tax: repealed in 1980, not zero by accident

Alaska did once tax individual income. After the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System came online and gave the state a new stream of oil revenue, the legislature repealed the tax retroactive to January 1, 1980, and issued refunds on tax already paid that year. The statute that used to cover individuals, AS 43.20.011, now imposes tax only “upon the entire taxable income of every corporation” — the individual provisions are gone from current law, not merely set to a zero rate the way Tennessee's now-repealed Hall income tax was. The Department of Revenue's own tax-types page confirms the practical result in one sentence: no individual income tax, no state withholding required.

Alaska take-home pay by salary

Single filer, standard deduction, 2026 rates, no 401(k) contribution. The State tax column is the 0.50% unemployment insurance share described above — every figure comes from the same arithmetic the calculator above runs.

Alaska hourly paycheck: what your rate is worth after tax

At 40 hours a week for 52 weeks. The gross hourly rate is the same everywhere; what survives tax is not.

What this calculator does not cover

This tool models federal income tax, Social Security, Medicare and the payroll programs your state actually runs — nothing more. It deliberately leaves out:

• Itemized deductions and federal tax credits — the Child Tax Credit, the Earned Income Tax Credit, education credits. The engine always applies the standard deduction; there is no itemizing path.
• A second job, self-employment income or 1099 pay. Every dollar you enter is treated as one employer’s W-2 wages, taxed at the employee share of Social Security and Medicare — not the self-employment tax a 1099 worker actually owes.
• Pre-tax benefits other than the 401(k) field — health insurance premiums, an HSA or FSA, commuter benefits. The only amount taken out before tax is the percentage you enter for a 401(k).
• Local taxes — city income tax, county tax, or a school-district tax. Where a state levies one, our methodology page says so by name; this calculator does not add that line, with two exceptions: the Indiana and Maryland calculators add the local income tax for the county you choose.
• Overtime premiums. An hourly rate is multiplied by the hours you enter; it does not add a time-and-a-half rate for hours worked past 40 in a week.
• Wage garnishments or court-ordered deductions — child support, a wage levy. Your result assumes none exist.
• The Additional Medicare Tax, at the single-filer threshold. The 0.9% surtax above $200,000 is applied at that one figure for every filing status, the way an employer actually withholds it — not the higher threshold a married couple filing jointly may end up owing at tax return time.
• Married filing separately, or a qualifying surviving spouse. The calculator only offers single, married filing jointly, and head of household.

None of these are in the estimate. Some of them change what you owe or get back when you file, and a calculator cannot ask for everything they depend on. See why your pay stub will differ for the details.

Key facts that affect your take-home pay in Alaska

• No state income tax, and no local income tax found. Alaska's own tax division says its individual income tax was repealed; we have found no local government that taxes wages, though we cannot confirm that for all 165 municipalities.
• The one line every other no-tax state on this site skips. 0.50% of gross pay, up to $271 a year, funds unemployment insurance alongside the employer's share — see the FAQ below for why.
• No state filing status. Marriage changes your federal tax and nothing else here.
• A 401(k) still helps, but only federally. Deferring pay cuts your federal tax; there is no state income tax here for it to lower.

Common mistakes people make

• Assuming Alaska takes nothing out at the state level, like Texas. It takes very little — at most $271.00 a year — but it is not zero.
• Confusing the employee's 0.50% with the total unemployment insurance rate. Alaska publishes an employer rate and an employee rate separately; you only ever pay your own share.
• Comparing an Alaska offer to a Tennessee one on gross pay alone. On $60,000 the gap is $271 a year, entirely from this one line.

Example calculation

A single filer on $60,000 in Alaska, 2026, no 401(k):

• Gross pay: $60,000.00
• Federal income tax: −$5,020.00
• Social Security (6.2%): −$3,720.00
• Medicare (1.45%): −$870.00
• Alaska state income tax: $0.00
• Alaska Unemployment Insurance (0.50%, capped at $271): −$271.00
• Take-home pay: $50,119.00 a year, or $4,176.58 a month

Compare with other no-income-tax states

The same $60,000, single filer, 2026. Washington and Illinois are the two comparisons this site's readers ask for most; Illinois shows what a real income tax costs at this salary.

Texas, Tennessee and Nevada come out identical to the cent against each other, because none of them withholds anything at state level. Alaska sits $271 below Tennessee on the same gross pay, purely from its employee-paid unemployment insurance share. Against Illinois the gap is $2,554 a year.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from an official document and dated, not taken from another calculator — the federal ones from the IRS and the Social Security Administration, the Alaska ones from the state’s own documents below. Each one carries the date we last checked that it still answers. If one of our numbers disagrees with one of theirs, they are right and we have a defect to fix — tell us.

The documents these figures are read from

• Alaska Department of Revenue, Tax Division — "Personal Income" tax type page — the statement that Alaska currently has no individual income tax and requires no state withholding.
• Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development — 2026 Unemployment Insurance Tax Rates — the 0.50% employee rate and the $54,200 taxable wage base, the only state on this site where part of unemployment insurance comes out of the employee's own pay.
• IRS — 2026 inflation adjustments (Rev. Proc. 2025-32) — the federal brackets and the $16,100 standard deduction.
• IRS — Topic no. 751, Social Security and Medicare withholding rates — the 6.2% and 1.45% rates and the 0.9% Additional Medicare Tax.
• SSA — Contribution and benefit base — the $184,500 Social Security wage base.

All links checked September 30, 2026.

Related reading

• Paycheck calculators for every state we publish
• Tennessee paycheck calculator — another no-income-tax state, but with nothing withheld at all
• Washington paycheck calculator — no income tax, but two different payroll programs come out instead
• How we calculate these figures, and where the rates come from