Alaska bush pilots enjoy high earning potential, with some tour pilots making six-figure salaries. Essential qualifications include VFR and IFR ratings, taildragger experience, and floatplane ...

Editor’s note: The following article is not intended to be a ranking, but is only to serve as a list of possible options. As the saying goes, your mileage may vary. The Alaskan wilderness is a ...

Alaska’s unemployment dipped from August to September, but the number of jobs in Alaska continues to fall, indicating the 49th state has not yet begun its recovery from a local recession that began ...

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 ...

Residents who are 65 and older made up 6.2% of the Alaska worker population in 2023 after steadily increasing over two ...

Mona takes an order from a customer at Jeepney Filipino Hawaiian Fusion Food on a weekday afternoon in April. (Jeff Chen/Alaska Public Media) Alaska had about 6,700 more jobs last month than a year ...

JUNEAU Alaska (AP) — Alaska had 19,100 more jobs in April than it did the same month in 2020 but the numbers still lagged what they were before the pandemic, the state labor department reported Friday ...

Feb. 17—Days after federal job cuts began to hit Alaska, the full extent of the layoffs was not yet known, even as those who lost their jobs began to contend with impacts on them and their communities ...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska had about 17,000 more jobs last month than it did in June 2020, with most industries seeing gains over that period but still falling below pre-pandemic levels, a report ...

As a student, I was very nervous about job stability and unemployment after graduating from college. I decided to take a job across the country in Alaska because I thought it would help my career. It ...

Economists say the loss of hundreds of oil jobs tied to the sale of BP’s Alaska business will be significant, but not devastating, for the state’s fragile economy. “There is enough happening from a ...