SOC 51-9061 · Production Occupations · May 2025

How much do Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers make in Anchorage, AK?

In the May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers in Anchorage, AK is $71,470. The 10th percentile is $45,400 and the 90th percentile is $100,870. Employment is 80.

Median annual wage

$71,470

10th percentile
$45,400
25th percentile
$63,420
Median
$71,470
75th percentile
$88,290
90th percentile
$100,870
Mean
$73,850

Annual wage from the May 2025 OEWS estimates.

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Percentile spread

For Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers, the published 10th percentile is $45,400 and the 90th percentile is $100,870. The difference is $55,470, which is 77.6% of the median. Ten percent of measured wages fall below the 10th percentile and ten percent fall above the 90th. How to read a percentile.

The middle half of the distribution, from the 25th percentile at $63,420 to the 75th at $88,290, covers $24,870.

The mean annual wage is $73,850, which sits above the median of $71,470. Median and mean measure different points in the same distribution.

National and state comparison

The Anchorage, AK median is 47.1% higher than the national median of $48,570 for Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers. In 2024 national prices the local median is $67,795, which is 39.6% higher than that same national median. The national figure is already in national prices because the United States parity is 100.

It is 8.5% lower than the Alaska median of $78,150.

Price-adjusted pay

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Anchorage, AK is 105.420, with the United States at 100. The Bureau of Economic Analysis released those parities on February 19, 2026. Dividing the May 2025 median of $71,470 by that parity and multiplying by 100 puts Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers at $67,795 in national prices. The wage year and the price year are different. Compare this wage after prices.

Nearby metros

No other metropolitan area within 200 miles has a published annual median for Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers in the May 2025 tables. A wage from farther away is not filled in. When a wage is not published.

Employment share

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers accounts for 0.05% of wage-and-salary employment in Anchorage, AK (80 of 177,050). Nationally the occupation is 0.38% of employment (597,370 of 155,495,730). The local share is 0.12 times the national share. That ratio is the location quotient computed from these May 2025 employment counts. It is not copied from the location-quotient column in the BLS bulk file.

Highest-paying jobs in Anchorage, AK · Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers by metro · How to read these percentiles · Median and mean · When a wage is not published · How the figures are made · Compare this wage after prices

Questions this page answers

How much do Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers make in Anchorage, AK?

In the May 2025 OEWS estimates, released May 15, 2026, the median annual wage for Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers in Anchorage, AK is $71,470. The 10th percentile is $45,400 and the 90th percentile is $100,870. Employment is 80.

How does that compare with the national median for Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers?

The local median is 47.1% higher than the national median of $48,570.

What is Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers pay in Anchorage, AK after local prices?

The 2024 all-items regional price parity for Anchorage, AK is 105.420, with the United States at 100. In those national prices, the May 2025 median of $71,470 is $67,795. The wage is May 2025 and the parity is 2024.