Alaska Economic Trends (January 2025)

World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks in 2016. Photo by Flickr user Iceflo. Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA 2.0.

In this month’s feature article, Karinne Wiebold, economist with the Alaska Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, provides a forecast of the state’s 2025 job growth — steady growth is set to continue. The 2025 projections are led by the construction, health care, transportation, and oil and gas industries.

The January edition also features a piece on job forecasts specific to Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Southeast Alaska. Also featured is the monthly Gauging the Economy report.

Read the full edition here.

Trends is a nonpartisan, data-driven magazine that covers a variety of economic topics in Alaska.

Source: Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development, Research & Analysis

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