Alaska has no state income tax on wages, so a Alaska paycheck only loses federal income tax and FICA (Social Security and Medicare). Use the calculators below to see your exact 2026 take-home pay in Alaska, check the sales tax on a purchase, and estimate a mortgage payment with Alaska property taxes factored in.
State Paycheck Calculator 2026
Estimate take-home pay after federal tax, FICA and your state’s income tax for the 2026 tax year.
How it works: the 2026 federal standard deduction ($16,100 single, $32,200 married filing jointly) comes off your salary first, then the 2026 federal brackets (10%–37%). FICA is applied properly: 6.2% Social Security on the first $184,500 of wages (2026 wage base), 1.45% Medicare on all wages, plus 0.9% additional Medicare on wages above $200,000 single / $250,000 married filing jointly. State tax applies each state’s own standard deduction/exemptions, then its brackets or flat rate. Local income taxes are not included — many cities and counties (e.g. New York City, Philadelphia, most of Ohio, Maryland counties, Indiana counties, Kentucky) levy their own payroll taxes on top of the state tax.
Alaska sales tax calculator
Alaska has no statewide sales tax in 2026 — the state base rate is 0%. A few local areas may still add their own small tax; enter it as the local add-on if yours does.
Sales Tax Calculator 2026
Estimate the sales tax and total price using each state’s base rate (2026), plus any local add-on.
State base rates are the 2026 state-level rates (local add-ons excluded). Actual combined rates vary widely by city and county — many localities add 1–5%. Five states have no statewide sales tax (Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon), though some localities still levy local taxes.
Mortgage calculator for Alaska homes
The average effective property tax rate in Alaska is about 1.11% of a home’s value per year. When you use the mortgage calculator below, enter roughly that percentage of the home price in the yearly property tax field for a realistic Alaska monthly payment.
Mortgage Payment Calculator
Work out your monthly principal & interest payment, total interest and the true total cost of your loan.
How it works: your loan amount (price minus down payment) is repaid in equal monthly instalments using the standard amortisation formula, so early payments are mostly interest and later ones mostly principal. Property tax and insurance, if entered, are simply spread evenly across each month. Your actual rate and payment will depend on your lender, credit profile and the deal you choose.
Zero. That’s your Alaska state income tax on a $75,000 salary — $0.00, every paycheck, all year. And there’s no statewide sales tax either, a combination no other state in America offers. Alaska pays its bills with oil money instead of your wages. The catch shows up somewhere else entirely: your house.
Income tax in Alaska in 2026
There isn’t one.
Alaska has no state income tax on wages. No brackets, no standard deduction to look up, no state withholding line shrinking your pay stub. If you earn $75,000 in Anchorage, Fairbanks or Juneau, the state takes nothing from it.
It doesn’t stop there. Alaska is also the only state with neither a state income tax nor a statewide sales tax. Some boroughs and cities charge their own local sales taxes — averaging about 1.82% where they exist — but the state itself stays out of the register too.
Why? Oil. Revenue from Alaska’s oil wealth has funded state government for decades, and residents even get a yearly cut of it through the Permanent Fund Dividend. That’s a very different deal from, say, Colorado, where a flat tax follows you home from every paycheck.
So your Alaska pay stub has exactly two deductions to worry about: Washington’s income tax and FICA. That’s the whole list.
Worked example: $75,000 salary, single filer
Step 1: State taxable income doesn’t really apply here — Alaska taxes none of your wages, so there’s nothing to subtract and no state brackets to climb.
Step 2: State income tax is $0.00. Not a typo.
Step 3: Federal tax still applies, of course. After the federal standard deduction of $16,100, your federal income tax on $75,000 is $7,670.00.
Step 4: FICA applies too. Social Security takes $4,650.00 and Medicare takes $1,087.50, totalling $5,737.50.
Step 5: Add it up and take-home pay is $61,592.50 a year — about $2,368.94 every two weeks. Run the same salary through a taxed state and you’ll keep noticeably less. That gap, roughly $119 a paycheck versus our Alabama example, is the Alaska advantage in plain dollars.
Sales tax in Alaska
The state sales tax rate is 0%. Buy something for $1,000 and the state adds $0.
Local is another story. Some boroughs and cities levy their own sales taxes, averaging around 1.82% where they exist, so a $1,000 purchase might cost you about $18 in tax in one town and nothing in the next town over. Where you shop matters more than in almost any other state, because there’s no statewide floor underneath it all.
Property tax in Alaska
And here’s where Alaska collects. The average effective property tax rate is 1.11% — a statewide average, and above the US average.
A $300,000 home costs about $3,330 a year in property tax. That’s nearly three times the bill on the same house in Alabama. Not every community levies the same rate, and some areas have no property tax at all, but in Alaska’s larger boroughs homeowners carry a real share of local government costs. No income tax doesn’t mean no tax. It means the tax moved.
Frequently asked questions
Does Alaska really have no income tax at all?
Really. There’s no state income tax on wages, no withholding, nothing to file with the state for your salary. You’ll still file a federal return every year.
What is the Permanent Fund Dividend, and is it taxed?
It’s an annual payment to Alaska residents from the state’s oil-revenue fund — basically your share of the oil money. Alaska doesn’t tax it, because Alaska doesn’t tax income. The federal government does tax it, though, so it belongs on your federal return.
Will I pay sales tax shopping in Alaska?
Maybe. There’s no statewide sales tax, but some boroughs and cities charge local ones averaging about 1.82% where they exist. It depends entirely on where you’re standing when you buy.
If there’s no income tax, why is property tax high?
Because local services still need funding. With no state income tax and no statewide sales tax, property tax — at 1.11% on average — ends up doing more of the work in many communities.
Do I still pay Social Security and Medicare in Alaska?
Yes. FICA is federal, so the same $5,737.50 comes out of a $75,000 salary in Alaska as anywhere else in the country.
See exactly what a no-income-tax paycheck looks like at your salary with the paycheck calculator up top, and don’t skip the mortgage calculator — Alaska’s property tax deserves a look before you buy.
This calculator is for guidance only and isn’t financial advice.