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Alaska Paycheck Calculator (2026)

Estimate your Alaska take-home pay after federal income tax and FICA. Alaska is the only U.S. state to have repealed a broad-based personal income tax, doing so by statute in 1980.

How this calculator works

Alaska has no state tax on wages or personal income today, so your paycheck deductions are federal income tax and FICA only. This calculator takes your gross pay, subtracts any pre-tax 401(k) and health-insurance deductions, computes federal income tax and FICA on what’s left, and divides the year’s total by your number of pay periods to estimate what lands in your account each paycheck.

The formula

grossAnnual        = salary, or hourlyRate × hoursPerWeek × 52
ficaWages          = grossAnnual − pretaxHealth        (401(k) does NOT reduce FICA wages)
fedTaxableWages    = grossAnnual − pretaxHealth − 401(k) contribution
taxableIncome      = max(0, fedTaxableWages − standardDeduction)

FICA   = 6.2% of ficaWages (up to the $184,500 wage base)
     + 1.45% of ficaWages (no cap)
     + 0.9% of ficaWages over $200,000

federalTax = 2026 bracket engine applied to taxableIncome
stateTax   = $0 (Alaska has had no tax on wages or salary income since its 1980 repeal)

net = grossAnnual − pretaxHealth − 401(k) − FICA − federalTax − stateTax − postTaxDeductions
netPerPaycheck = net / payPeriodsPerYear

Worked example

A single filer earning $60,000/year, paid biweekly, with no 401(k) or extra deductions:

  • FICA: 7.65% × $60,000 = $4,590.00/year ($3,720 Social Security + $870 Medicare)
  • Taxable income: $60,000 − $16,100 standard deduction = $43,900 → federal tax = $5,020.00/year
  • Net pay: $60,000 − $4,590 − $5,020 = $50,390.00/year, or $1,938.08 per biweekly paycheck

This is the same arithmetic as our Texas, Florida, Washington, Tennessee, Nevada, and New Hampshire calculators’ worked examples, since all seven states now have $0 state tax on wages; only the state-specific content differs. Alaska’s road to $0 is the odd one out in this group: it once taxed wages, at rates up to 16% of federal liability and later a progressive 3%-14.5% schedule, and repealed that tax outright in 1980. Nothing in the arithmetic above changes because of that history; it only explains why the state-tax line reads $0.

Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

Does Alaska have a state income tax on wages or salary?

No. Alaska has had $0 state tax on wages since 1980. Unlike states that never enacted a wage tax or that bar one constitutionally, Alaska once had a broad-based personal income tax and repealed it by ordinary statute, which no reinstatement attempt has undone since.

Did Alaska always have no income tax?

No, and that makes Alaska unique among no-tax states. Alaska levied a personal income tax from 1949 to 1980, starting at 10% of a taxpayer's federal liability and later restructured into its own progressive 3%-14.5% bracket schedule. The Alaska Legislature repealed it in 1980, after the completion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline brought a wave of new oil revenue into the state treasury.

Did Governor Jay Hammond sign the 1980 repeal?

He was governor at the time, but he did not champion it. Hammond preferred alternatives to full repeal and did not veto the bill mainly because the Legislature had passed it by a veto-proof majority, so a veto would have been overridden anyway. He later called not fighting the repeal harder one of his biggest regrets in office.

Is the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend the same thing as not having an income tax?

No, they're separate. The Permanent Fund Dividend is an annual payment to eligible residents from investment earnings on Alaska's oil-revenue savings fund; it is not a tax rebate and this calculator does not include it. This page only estimates wage withholding, which has been $0 for state tax since the 1980 repeal regardless of the dividend.

What is FICA?

FICA is the combined 7.65% Social Security (6.2%) and Medicare (1.45%) tax withheld from your paycheck, matched by your employer. Social Security stops once your wages hit the annual wage base ($184,500 for 2026); Medicare has no cap and adds an extra 0.9% above $200,000.

How does contributing to a 401(k) change my take-home pay?

A traditional 401(k) contribution lowers the wages your federal income tax is calculated on, so it shaves a bit off your income tax bill, but it does not reduce your Social Security or Medicare wages, since those are calculated before the 401(k) deduction.

Why doesn't my calculated net pay match what shows up in my actual paycheck?

This calculator estimates your annual tax liability and divides it evenly across your pay periods. Your actual employer withholds federal tax per paycheck using IRS withholding tables, which can differ slightly period-to-period; the two methods land close together but rarely to the exact cent.

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