Anchorage Municipality · Alaska
Anchorage, AK jobs and wages
Who works here, what they earn, and which industries carry the local economy — Census ACS estimates for the city itself, not the wider metro.
Quick answer
Workers in Anchorage, AK earn a median of $50,617 a year, 14% above the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4.6% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 24.5% of jobs.
- Median earnings
- $50,617#16 of 94 metros
- Unemployment rate
- 4.6%US 5.2%
- Labor force participation
- 69.8%US 63.5%
- People employed
- 141,941Civilian employed, age 16+
What Anchorage does for a living
Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.
- Education, health care & social assistance24.5%
- Professional, scientific & management10.7%
- Retail trade10.5%
- Transportation, warehousing & utilities10.3%
- Public administration10.1%
- Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.5%
- Construction5.8%
- Finance, insurance & real estate5%
- Other services, except public administration4.6%
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining2.6%
- Manufacturing2.5%
- Information2%
- Wholesale trade1.8%
Related data for Anchorage
Earnings only mean something next to what things cost.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates
Tables B23025, B20002 and C24030, 2019-2023 ACS 5-year. Industry shares combine the male and female columns of C24030 and are rounded, so they may not total exactly 100%.