# The Alaska Job Economy — Alaska Jobs

# The Alaska Job Economy

A live read on Alaska's public, policy, and civic hiring — drawn from this board's 2030 open listings — set against the state's official labor market.

## The board's pulse this board · updated daily

### Openings by region

### Openings by sector

### Posted pay by sector median, annualized

### Where the money lands 940 priced, annualized

### Who's hiring — top employers

## Alaska's labor market U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · as of 2026-07-11

### Unemployment rate Alaska, monthly

### Where Alaskans work payroll jobs, thousands

## Reading the two together

Government is Alaska's single largest payroll sector — about 77,100 jobs, roughly 23% of all nonfarm payroll — which is exactly the slice this board watches most closely. Right now it's showing 2030 open public and civic roles, at a median annualized $73,736 , while the statewide unemployment rate sits at 4.6% .

As the board accumulates daily history, this section will track hiring momentum against the labor market over time.

## The Alaska difference — who actually works here Alaska Dept. of Labor · 2024

Alaska's labor market has a feature almost no other state shares: a large share of the work is done by people who live Outside. The state's own count is the sharpest lens on it.

### Nonresident share by industry the extremes

Those nonresident-heavy sectors — seafood, mining, oil & gas — are seasonal and resource-driven. The public, policy, and civic roles this board tracks sit at the other end: 143 of its 2030 openings are explicitly open to Alaska residents only. It's a board of jobs for people who stay. [Source: Alaska DOLWD, Nonresidents Working in Alaska (2024)](https://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/reshire/nonres.pdf) .

Board figures are computed live from 2030 open listings. Labor-market figures are Alaska statewide series from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, cached daily. Posted-pay figures annualize hourly/biweekly/monthly ranges to a common basis.

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