Alaska Resident Hire Information

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• The percentage of nonresident workers fell in 2018. Nonresidents made up 20.7 percent of workers in 2018, two-tenths ofa percentage point lower than 2017’s rate of 20.9 percent.
• Resident workers rose slightly while nonresident workers were down in 2018. Resident workers
  were up 175, or 0.1 percent, to 322,309. Nonresident workers fell 1.0 percent (-883) to 84,238.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• Factors that affect the percentage of nonresident workers in an area include large seasonal employment fluctuations, small local populations, and remote worksites.
• The highest percentages of nonresidents are found in areas such as the Southwest region, Skagway, and Denali where remote worksites and highly seasonal fish processing and tourism work requires supplemental workers.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• Total resident wages rose by $510 million (3.7 percent), to $14.2 billion while total nonresident wages rose $40 million (1.6 percent), to $2.5 billion.
• The share of wages earned by nonresidents decrease by three-tenths of a percentage point. Nonresidents earned 15.0 percent of total wages, down from 15.3 percent in 2017.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• The oil industry employed 4.8 percent of all nonresident workers.
• The percentage of nonresidents working in oil and gas rose from 33.6 percent to 34.8 percent.
• Th e number of workers in the oil industry fell 10.3 percent in 2018, a drop of 1,327 workers. Of the total decline, 1,016 or 76.6 percent were residents while 311 or 23.4 percent were nonresidents.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• The seafood processing industry is the largest employer of nonresidents, with 21 percent of all nonresidents working in the industry.
• Th e industry employed 17,385 nonresidents in 2018, representing 74.4 percent of the processing workforce.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Research and Analysis Section

• Leisure and hospitality, including recreation, accommodation, and food service, is the second largest employer of nonresidents, at 18.3 percent of the nonresident workforce.
• Nonresidents were 30.9 percent of visitor-related industrie's 63,143 total workers, unchanged from 2017.