All in all, recent economic growth has been slow. Hotels and lodging places, amusement and recreation services, business and social services, and health care are pacesetters in expected services job growth. Recruitment is active for seasonal summer seafood processing jobs. In the summer, there are labor shortages in some occupations. In Anchorage, the transportation sector is growing.
Many openings are for seasonal employment.
Employment in state and local government is in a downward trend. Mining companies have been curtailing operations. Urban school districts have more teacher applicants than positions and rarely hire from out of state. The timber industry is much reduced from earlier years. There is no factory work in Alaska.