- The middle half earn between $39.31 and $60.90 an hour.
- Only 5 states pay construction supervisors more at the median.
- Alaska pays less than both nearby states it is compared with.
- BLS counts about 2,690 construction supervisors on payrolls in Alaska.
- At the state median wage, a contracting business needs to bill about $156.82 an hour on the labor rate calculator's starting numbers.
Construction Supervisor pay in Alaska, bottom to top
BLS calls this group first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers: the foremen and crew leads who run the work on site.
| Pay level | Hourly | Yearly | National hourly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10th percentile | $29.58 | $61,530 | $25.62 |
| 25th percentile | $39.31 | $81,760 | $30.48 |
| Median | $49.10 | $102,140 | $38.42 |
| 75th percentile | $60.90 | $126,680 | $48.78 |
| 90th percentile | $76.19 | $158,480 | $61.66 |
| Average (mean) | $51.17 | $106,430 | $41.56 |
From the bottom tenth ($29.58) to the top tenth ($76.19), the top of the scale pays about 2.6 times the bottom in Alaska, close to the 2.4 times spread for construction supervisors nationwide.
Both ends of the scale beat the national figures: $29.58 against $25.62 at the bottom tenth, and $76.19 against $61.66 at the top.
The average, $51.17, is close to the median, so pay sits fairly evenly around the middle.
How Alaska compares with other states
Over a full year, the Alaska median of $102,140 is $22,220 more than the national $79,920.
In the state ranking, Alaska sits 6th, between Hawaii ($49.34) and Rhode Island ($47.40). The range runs from $29.44 in Arkansas to $52.68 in Washington.
Alaska has no land border, so it is set here against Washington and Oregon. Both pay more than Alaska.
These are wages as paid, not adjusted for what it costs to live in Alaska. Rent, home prices and taxes decide how far a higher wage goes.
| Nearby state | Median hourly | Median yearly | Against Alaska |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | $49.10 | $102,140 | |
| Washington | $52.68 | $109,570 | +$3.58 an hour |
| Oregon | $49.55 | $103,070 | +$0.45 an hour |
How many construction supervisors work in Alaska
About 2,690 construction supervisors work on payrolls in Alaska, 0.3% of the 812,210 nationwide, the 46th largest count among the states.
The trade is a bigger part of the local job market than it is nationally: 8.3 of every 1,000 jobs in Alaska, 1.6 times the national share.
What a contracting business in Alaska should charge
Higher wages in Alaska go straight into the price. Take a contracting business in Alaska paying the state median of $49.10 and run it through the labor rate calculator with its starting numbers (40-hour weeks, 10 paid days off, 2 unbilled hours a day, 7.65% payroll taxes, $90,000 a year of overhead and 15% profit).
| Step | Math | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Paid hours | 40 × 52 | 2,080 |
| Hours at work | 2,080 − 10 days × 8 | 2,000 |
| Billable hours | 2,000 × 6 ÷ 8 | 1,500 |
| Labor cost | $49.10 × 2,080 × 1.0765 | $109,941 |
| Break-even rate | ($109,941 + $90,000) ÷ 1,500 | $133.29 |
| Rate with 15% profit | $133.29 ÷ 0.85 | $156.82 |
That is $156.82 per billable hour, 3.2 times the wage, and $18.76 more than the $138.06 the same math gives at the national median wage.
Paying the 75th percentile instead, $60.90 in Alaska, to hire and keep experienced people raises the rate to $177.54.
At this wage the pay itself is the biggest part of the price, so every raise shows up in the rate: a dollar more an hour adds about $1.76 per billed hour.
Run it with your own numbers in the labor rate calculator. It is free and shows every step.
Where these numbers come from
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.
The figures are the BLS state estimates for SOC 47-1011, first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, across all industries, read straight from the May 2025 state data file. They cover wage and salary workers, not the self-employed. Where BLS did not publish a figure, this page leaves it out.
All states in one table: construction supervisor salary by state.