The local work report
Work in Alaska
9,542
Live openings our index could see in Alaska.
Counted exactly, against live rows, . Not a projection and not an annual average. A posting counts if its source still listed it at the most recent crawl.
687
7.2% of openings in Alaska
read as entry level, on our reading of the posting text.
That label is ours, not the employer’s. We read it from the posting, and it is not perfect: in a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of postings we call entry level carry a senior-sounding word in the title, and some of those are fine (“Shift Supervisor Trainee” really is a trainee role). Treat it as a good guide, not a guarantee.
The other 8,855 openings in Alaska read as expecting experience a student does not have yet, which is a fact about the route rather than about them.
Which fields are hiring
Ranked by live openings. Shares are of the 8,277 postings we could classify, never of the state total, because the unclassified remainder is real.
Healthcare
1,87522.7%
Transportation and driving
1,59919.3%
Technology and software
98311.9%
Sales and marketing
6718.1%
Retail
5426.5%
Customer service
3824.6%
Manufacturing
3173.8%
Skilled trades
3023.6%
Office and administration
2693.2%
Food service
2392.9%
Finance and accounting
2042.5%
Business and operations
2012.4%
Warehouse and logistics
1992.4%
Childcare and education
1832.2%
Security and safety
851.0%
Hospitality
770.9%
General labor
550.7%
Creative and media
410.5%
Beauty and wellness
310.4%
Agriculture and natural resources
180.2%
Engineering
40.0%
A further 1,265 live openings in Alaska carry no field in our index. They are real postings we have not classified, and they are excluded from the shares above rather than distributed into them.
Where the work is
The 11 places in Alaska with the most live openings. For most students the honest answer to “can I do this without moving?” is on this list.
Place names are exactly as the employer wrote them and are not normalized, so one city can appear under several labels and a big metro can be split across them. Treat a row as a floor for that place, not as its total.
Eagle River
1,370
Douglas
1,166
Anchorage
658
Big Lake
259
Badger
248
Anchorage, Alaska
220
Wasilla
203
Hoonah
169
Fairbanks
161
Soldotna
151
Kongiganak
150
How much experience these postings ask for
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in. Every live posting gets one of these three, so unlike the field breakdown above there is no “did not state” residue here — which is itself the sign that the label is inferred rather than reported.
- 687
- Reads as entry level
- 7,331
- Reads as expecting some experience
- 1,524
- Reads as senior or specialized
What this is, and what it is not
It is a count of job postings our index held for Alaska at the moment this page was built. It is not a census of the Alaska labor market, and it is not a forecast.
Our coverage of Alaska is richer than our coverage of most states. We hold 130 indexed openings per 10,000 residents here, against a median of 47 across the states we can read. That is a fact about our index, not about Alaska’s economy, and the two are easy to confuse. Across all 52 the ratio between the best and worst covered is more than twentyfold, so comparing one state’s total against another’s tells you more about us than about them.
It is a floor, not a total. Nationally the index held 1,537,993 live US openings, of which 1,308,341 carry a state and 229,652 do not. Those unplaced postings are real work that we cannot put on a map, so every state figure on this page understates what exists.
Some of these postings will already be filled. Employers do not reliably take listings down, so a live posting means “still listed by its source”, not “confirmed open”. Anybody who tells a student otherwise is selling them something.