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Juneau City and Borough · Alaska

Juneau, 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.

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Quick answer

Workers in Juneau, AK earn a median of $51,000 a year, 14% above the national median of $44,587. Unemployment is 4% against 5.2% nationally, and education, health care & social assistance is the largest employer at 22.8% of jobs.

Median earnings
$51,000#14 of 94 metros
Unemployment rate
4%US 5.2%
Labor force participation
66.7%US 63.5%
People employed
16,486Civilian employed, age 16+

What Juneau does for a living

Share of the civilian employed population by industry, largest first.

  • Education, health care & social assistance22.8%
  • Public administration21.2%
  • Arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation & food9.3%
  • Professional, scientific & management8.1%
  • Transportation, warehousing & utilities8%
  • Retail trade7.8%
  • Construction7.6%
  • Other services, except public administration4.6%
  • Agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting & mining3.4%
  • Finance, insurance & real estate2.6%
  • Manufacturing2.2%
  • Wholesale trade1.5%
  • Information1%

Related data for Juneau

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%.

Other Juneau datasets on this site.

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