New homes in varying stages of construction are seen on Monday in southwest Anchorage neighborhood. Alaska's construction employment had not bounced back to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022, ...

A construction crew on 8th and K streets on May 9, 2022. Construction is one of the sectors that sees an increase of jobs in the summer, along with tourism and seafood processing. Alaska sees the ...

Unemployment in Alaska held at 4.7 percent in March while government job cuts held overall employment growth since 2025 to 0.3 percent.

Alaska is expected gain 5,400 jobs in 2024, an increase of 1.7% over the past year and enough to nudge total state employment above 2019 levels for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit in ...

Alaska job openings spiked to 40,000 in the summer of 2022, according to a new report published in the Department of Labor and Workforce Development’s Alaska Economics Trends magazine. In a state of ...

(TNS) — For the last seven years, the Alaska economy has performed "at or near the bottom" nationally in four key measures of economic health, according to a report released Thursday by the University ...

Alaska is expected to have moderate job growth in 2025, with the construction and oil and gas sectors forecast to be the big winners and seafood processing seen as the biggest loser. Statewide job ...