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Alaska Paycheck Calculator
Work out Alaska take-home pay from gross, pay frequency, filing status and pre-tax deductions, with documented federal and FICA assumptions. Alaska levies...
Estimate take-home pay with documented 2026 federal assumptions; Alaska does not impose an individual income tax on wages.
Alaska does not impose an individual state income tax on wages. Federal payroll taxes and other state or local deductions may still apply. Alaska has no state income tax to include here, so this estimate covers federal withholding and FICA, and the employee share of the Employment Security Act contribution is absent from it unless you add that amount yourself. This calculator is an estimate workspace, not a payroll filing service. Verify every assumption with current official instructions.
What Alaska leaves out of the state line
Alaska levies no individual income tax, so the calculator offers no Alaska withholding field and the state line resolves to zero with that explanation attached. Zero is not the whole deduction story. Unemployment insurance here is a two-sided contribution: the Employment Security Tax section of the Department of Labor and Workforce Development sets a rate charged to the employer and a rate charged to the worker, and only the worker's part is deducted from wages. This page does not compute it. Put the amount from your own record into the other deductions field, or the take-home figure will be higher than your real net pay.
Keeping the Alaska unemployment share accurate
The employee contribution applies to wages up to a taxable wage base that the Employment Security Tax section publishes for each year, and this page does not track it. The box for gross pay earlier this year drives only the federal Social Security cap and the extra Medicare step. So an amount typed into other deductions keeps being subtracted every period until you remove it, including after wages for the year have passed the base. Take the figure from a statement your employer issued for the same period rather than estimating it, and revisit it at the start of each year.
Frequently asked questions
If Alaska has no income tax, is anything taken out for the state?
No state income tax is withheld, which is why the page shows no Alaska field for it. Something else does reach your wages, though: the state's unemployment insurance is paid for by workers as well as employers, and the worker's share is deducted by payroll. The calculator has no way to know that amount, so until you enter it in the other deductions field the estimate overstates what actually lands in your account.
Where do I find the Alaska employee contribution to enter?
From a pay statement your employer issued for the same pay period, which is the dependable source, or by applying the employee rate the Employment Security Tax section publishes to that period's wages. Use one period's amount rather than a figure accumulated since January, stop entering it once your wages for the year have reached the published taxable wage base, and check it again when the section posts the following year's rates.