Employment Outlook

ndustries relying on natural resource development and extraction and those selling Alaska's beauty drive Alaska's labor force. Oil and gas, seafood, and tourism employ a significant share of the state's workforce. In recent years, Alaska's economy has better weathered the storms associated with high and low oil prices, fluctuating fish harvests, and fickle tourists than it did thirty years ago. Today, while the health of resource-based industries still heavily influences the workforce, the state has a more diversified economy.