2026 Alaska paycheck calculator
Alaska has no income tax, but it takes 0.50 percent of your pay for unemployment insurance.
Updated for 2026Checked Oct 29, 2026 against IRS and Alaska Legislature sourcesHow we check
Your take-home pay
$1,281.60
per paycheck, paid every two weeks
- Gross pay
- $1,500.00
- Federal income tax
- $96.15
- Social Security
- $93.00
- Medicare
- $21.75
- County tax
- Choose your county
- Alaska unemployment
- $7.50
- Take-home
- $1,281.60
Alaska unemployment stops once your 2026 pay passes $54,200.
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Take-home pay $1,281.60
Alaska pay rules at a glance
| State income tax | None Source |
| County or local tax | None Source |
| Disability or paid leave | Alaska has no state disability or paid family leave program, but it is one of the few states that takes unemployment insurance from the worker: 0.50 percent of wages in 2026, on the first $54,200 of wages from each employer. Source |
| Minimum wage | $14.00 an hour. From Jul 1, 2027: $15.00 an hour Source |
| Tipped minimum cash wage | $14.00 an hour, before tips Source |
| Final paycheck if you are let go | Within 3 working days after the employer ends the job, whatever the reason. Source |
| Final paycheck if you quit | By the next regular payday that is at least 3 days after the employer received notice that the worker quit. Source |
What comes out of a Alaska paycheck
On $1,500 every two weeks, single, an Alaska worker keeps $1,281.60.
Alaska does not tax wages. State law exempts individuals from the Alaska net income tax, so there is no state withholding form, and dependents or filing status change nothing on the state side.
The one state deduction is unemployment insurance, which Alaska takes from the worker, as only a few states do. In 2026 the rate is 0.50 percent of wages, applied to the first $54,200 you earn from each employer. The most one employer can take from you in a year is therefore $271.00. After your wages from that employer pass $54,200, the deduction stops for the rest of the year, and a new employer starts the count again. The calculator subtracts this line from every Alaska paycheck until the cap is reached.
County and local taxes
The Alaska statute that bars a local income tax is broad: no general law city, no home rule city, and no other political subdivision of the state may levy a tax on the net income of residents or nonresidents. Whatever Alaska community you work in, your stub has no local income line.
The state's unemployment contribution is therefore the only Alaska-specific deduction to check, and nothing local is missing from the result.
Final pay and the minimum wage
Alaska's minimum wage is $14.00 an hour from July 1, 2026, and the tipped cash wage is $14.00 too. It rises to $15.00 an hour on July 1, 2027, not on January 1 as in many states, and after that it adjusts each year for inflation. The state labor department's own page still listed $13.00 when we checked, but the statute sets $14.00, and we follow the statute.
If your employer ends the job, for any reason, your final pay is due within three working days. If you quit, it is due by the next regular payday that falls at least three days after your employer received notice that you quit.
Other states with no income tax
Sources and checks
Checked on Oct 29, 2026. Source: Alaska Statutes 43.20.012(a) (akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp, section 43.20.012, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "The tax imposed by this chapter does not apply to (1) an individual; (2) a fiduciary..." Alaska's net income tax on individuals was repealed by chapter 1, SSSLA 1980 (the repeal notes run through AS 43.20.011); only corporations still pay it.
Local taxes: Alaska Statutes 43.20.290, "Exclusive state authority" (akleg.gov, section 43.20.290, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "No tax may be levied and collected upon the net income of resident or nonresident individuals by a general law city or by a home rule city or any other political subdivision of the state."
Disability and paid leave: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Employment Security Tax, "What is the taxable wage base for this year?" (labor.alaska.gov/estax/faq/w1.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026), table row for 2026: "$54,200 | 1.50% | 0.50% | $271.00" (wage base, standard employer rate, employee rate, employee total). Alaska Statutes 23.20.290(d) (fetched Oct 29, 2026): the employee rate is set from the average benefit cost rate and "may not be less than one-half percent or more than one percent." No Alaska statute or state agency program provides a disability or paid family leave payroll deduction (the department's Employment Security Tax section collects only unemployment insurance contributions).
Minimum wage: Alaska Statutes 23.10.065(a) (akleg.gov, section 23.10.065, fetched Oct 29, 2026), as amended by Ballot Measure 1 (2024): "(2) effective July 1, 2026, the minimum wage shall be $14.00 per hour; (3) effective July 1, 2027, the minimum wage shall be $15.00 per hour; and (4) thereafter the minimum wage shall be adjusted annually for inflation." The next change is July 1, 2027, not Jan. 1. The department's own minimum wage page (labor.alaska.gov/lss/whact.htm, fetched Oct 29, 2026) still lists $13.00 from July 1, 2025 as the latest rate and has not been updated for July 1, 2026; the statute governs.
Final paycheck: Alaska Statutes 23.05.140(b) (akleg.gov, section 23.05.140, fetched Oct 29, 2026): "If the employment is terminated by the employer, regardless of the cause for the termination, payment is due within three working days after the termination. If the employment is terminated by the employee, payment is due at the next regular pay day that is at least three days after the employer received notice of the employee's termination of services." No tip credit: AS 23.10.065(a): "An employer may not apply tips or gratuities bestowed upon employees as a credit toward payment of the minimum hourly wage."
Federal withholding: IRS Publication 15-T (2026), Worksheet 1A and its "2026 Percentage Method Tables for Automated Payroll Systems and Withholding on Periodic Payments of Pensions and Annuities," pages 10 to 12. Fetched directly from irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p15t.pdf and transcribed Oct 28, 2026.
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