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Alaska personal representative compensation

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Alaska Statute 13.16.430 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services. If a will fixes compensation and there is no contract with the decedent about it, the personal representative may renounce the will's provision (before qualifying) and take reasonable compensation instead, and may renounce all or part of the compensation by written renunciation filed with the court. No statutory percentage schedule exists.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.

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Alaska estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededFiling a trust or estate action (probate)2 asset entries have no value entered. A blank amount is not treated as zero, so the charge cannot be computed.Court charges only, for the proceeding named beside each figure. That proceeding is not always the route screened above.
Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.Alaska Statute 13.16.430 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services. If a will fixes compensation and there is no contract with the decedent about it, the personal representative may renounce the will's provision (before qualifying) and take reasonable compensation instead, and may renounce all or part of the compensation by written renunciation filed with the court. No statutory percentage schedule exists.

This route check is general information, not legal advice. It does not test every eligibility condition, creditor issue, will provision, local fee, or asset-title fact.

How Alaska executor compensation works

In Alaska, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Alaska compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Alaska fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.

Alaska does not set a statewide percentage schedule.

The amount is not computable from estate value alone. This page therefore publishes no percentage result; it reports the reasonable-compensation standard the reviewed record supports instead.

What this state does not set

Alaska does not set one statutory percentage to multiply by the estate. Do not substitute a neighboring state's rate or an informal fee table. The amount depends on the services and accounting in the particular administration, and the will may affect the compensation analysis where the governing rule allows it.

The governing compensation standard

Sec. 13.16.430. Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for services.

AS 13.16.430 (Alaska State Legislature; reviewed August 9, 2026)

How the amount is fixed

Alaska Statute 13.16.430 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services. If a will fixes compensation and there is no contract with the decedent about it, the personal representative may renounce the will's provision (before qualifying) and take reasonable compensation instead, and may renounce all or part of the compensation by written renunciation filed with the court. No statutory percentage schedule exists.

Keep the estate accounting, time and task log, receipts, and any will or compensation agreement together. Before taking a fee, ask the Superior Court how compensation is presented for review in this estate and whether an order or account approval is required. This page cannot decide what a court will consider reasonable.

Alaska compensation map

Which figure the Alaska fee rule actually measures

A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Alaska map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.

QuestionRecorded Alaska answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Collection of personal property by affidavit (AS 13.16.680)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?personal probate property only; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$50,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; Alaska has separately-triggered creditor deadlines that cannot be reduced to one honest day count. Under AS 13.16.450 the personal representative publishes notice once a week for three successive weeks; claims that arose before death are barred (AS 13.16.460(a)) (1) within four months after the date of first publication if notice is given, but (2) within three years after death if no notice to creditors is published (outer nonclaim limit). Claims arising at/after death are barred four months after they arise or after PR performance is due (AS 13.16.460(b)).Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$250 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the Superior Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?Alaska Statute 13.16.430 entitles a personal representative to reasonable compensation for services. If a will fixes compensation and there is no contract with the decedent about it, the personal representative may renounce the will's provision (before qualifying) and take reasonable compensation instead, and may renounce all or part of the compensation by written renunciation filed with the court. No statutory percentage schedule exists. The relevant base is the estate accounting.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The Alaska fee record, band by band

This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.

Alaska has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The controlling record is AS 13.16.430; read its quoted standard and ask the court how the fee is presented for approval.

Prepare a reasonable-compensation request

Because Alaska does not publish a percentage table here, the useful output is a record of the work and the accounting figure the court can review. Keep the will or appointment order, the the estate accounting the rule names, a dated task log, receipts, and a separate list of extraordinary work. This worksheet does not predict what the Superior Court will approve.

Sec. 13.16.430. Compensation of personal representative. A personal representative is entitled to reasonable compensation for services.

AS 13.16.430 (Alaska State Legislature; reviewed August 9, 2026)
Record to assembleWhy it matters to the Alaska review
Will, appointment, or compensation agreementShows whether a document states a fee or leaves the amount to the reviewed standard.
Accounting baseSeparates the estate accounting from the gross asset list.
Dated task and time recordConnects the requested amount to the administration work actually performed.
Receipts and extraordinary-work listKeeps expenses and separately reviewable services out of an unexplained round number.

Case-file context

Keep the Alaska answer with its neighboring conditions

A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Alaska descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.

Route context

Alaska allows collection of a decedent's personal property by affidavit thirty days after death when the estate is within the statutory personalty and vehicle caps. Formal probate is filed in the Superior Court, and the statewide Administrative Rule 9 fee schedule sets a uniform filing fee.

Thirty days after death, a successor may collect a decedent's personal property by affidavit if the entire estate, wherever located, less liens and encumbrances, consists only of not more than (A) vehicles subject to registration under AS 28.10.011 with a total value not exceeding $100,000 and (B) other personal property not exceeding $50,000, and no personal representative is appointed or pending. The affidavit reaches personal property only (debts, tangible personalty, securities), not real estate.

Cost context

Alaska Administrative Rule 9 (statewide court Fee Schedule) sets a $250.00 fee upon filing a trust or estate action other than the registration or deposit of a will or trust document. Depositing a will for safekeeping is $50.00 and registering a trust document is $50.00. The fee is a single statewide figure set by Supreme Court order, not a county-variable amount.

$250 is the recorded statewide amount.

Deadline context

Alaska has separately-triggered creditor deadlines that cannot be reduced to one honest day count. Under AS 13.16.450 the personal representative publishes notice once a week for three successive weeks; claims that arose before death are barred (AS 13.16.460(a)) (1) within four months after the date of first publication if notice is given, but (2) within three years after death if no notice to creditors is published (outer nonclaim limit). Claims arising at/after death are barred four months after they arise or after PR performance is due (AS 13.16.460(b)).

  • AK small-estate cap is two additive parts ($100k vehicles + $50k other personalty); modeling only the $50,000 figure understates eligibility for vehicle-heavy estates.
  • No publisher edition stamp on the AK statute print endpoint or the Rules PDF - manual session-law review remains required each cycle.

Court-material note: Alaska publishes statewide standardized P-series probate self-help forms through the Alaska Court System. Probate is heard in the Superior Court (with magistrate judges handling some probate matters in smaller court locations).

Arithmetic illustration

See the Alaska amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Alaska ceiling is $50,000, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $37,500 sits below the Alaska figure and $62,500 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Alaska counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Alaska ceilingWhat it does not decide
$37,500Below $50,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$62,500Above $50,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Bring the stated accounting base and the will or court instructions to the compensation discussion.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Alaska publishes statewide standardized P-series probate self-help forms through the Alaska Court System.

Probate is heard in the Superior Court (with magistrate judges handling some probate matters in smaller court locations).

Source trail

Records used by this Alaska map

  • AS 13.16.680AS 13.16.680 - Collection of personal property by affidavit; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • AS 13.16.430AS 13.16.430 - Compensation of personal representative; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • AS 13.16.460AS 13.16.460 - Limitations on presentation of claims; reviewed August 9, 2026
  • Alaska R. Admin. 9 (Fee Schedule)Alaska Administrative Rule 9 - Fee Schedule (probate matters); reviewed August 9, 2026

Compensation source

Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.

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