Seafood Processing Workforce by Borough or Census Area

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Year Borough or Census Area Processing Workers Percent Workers Nonresident Processing Wages Percent Wages Nonresident Worked for 5+ Years in Processing Average Quarterly Wage
2006 Kenai Peninsula Borough 2,231 51.1% 13,365,862 43.6% 214 3,562
2006 Kusilvak Census Area 282 6.4% 716,614 22.6% 1 1,991
2006 Bethel Census Area 229 6.1% 505,281 22.8% 24 1,707
2006 Yakutat Borough 91 36.3% 936,715 32.9% 5 4,828
2006 Wrangell-Petersburg 1,501 73.2% 12,318,996 52.9% 273 4,749
2006 Skagway-Angoon 113 25.7% 1,142,071 13.6% 25 4,643
2006 Sitka City and Borough 510 51.0% 6,257,196 35.9% 107 5,642
2006 POW-Outer Ketchikan 325 25.2% 971,096 20.6% 63 1,927
2006 Petersburg Borough 1 0.0% ND* 0.0% 0 ND*
2006 Ketchikan Gateway Borough 1,256 76.4% 9,197,139 60.7% 306 4,236
2006 Juneau City and Borough 471 60.1% 3,429,936 45.7% 29 3,974
2006 Haines Borough 315 90.5% 2,545,043 90.1% 65 5,797
2006 Valdez-Cordova Census Area 1,185 73.8% 11,783,258 61.4% 205 4,839
2006 Aleutians East Borough 3,529 93.6% 60,654,421 91.3% 808 6,671
2006 Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area 31 9.7% 15,579 0.0% 0 503
2006 Nome Census Area 167 10.2% 1,403,459 12.6% 17 4,305
2006 Fairbanks North Star Borough 21 19.0% 148,200 0.0% 4 2,744
2006 Marine/Offshore 1,767 90.4% 30,180,592 92.4% 164 8,447
2006 Kodiak Island Borough 2,996 49.8% 37,412,861 32.3% 754 5,308
2006 Lake & Peninsula Borough 431 93.3% 4,159,684 87.5% 20 5,488
2006 Dillingham Census Area 506 87.0% 3,701,561 85.9% 40 4,531
2006 Bristol Bay Borough 2,183 82.0% 17,452,079 84.6% 188 5,403
2006 Matanuska-Susitna Borough 4 0.0% ND* 0.0% 0 ND*
2006 Anchorage Municipality 582 35.2% 4,321,072 28.2% 42 4,069
2006 Aleutians West Census Area 4,720 76.7% 68,199,725 64.6% 1,092 5,564

Note: Workers are being counted in any borough or census area where they worked in 2020. Therefore, the number of processing workers in each borough or census area will not sum to the total since some workers work in more than one borough or census area during any given year.

* ND, Non disclosed

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