Brock Wilson
30:58 - 31:52
"over $1.5 billion is federal civilian wages paid to Alaskan federal workers, and that's approximately $100,000 per job. So these are high-paying jobs. There's approximately 15,500 federal workers living in Alaska, and across all states, we're the third highest share of federal workers in a state's workforce."
“over $1.5 billion is federal civilian wages paid to Alaskan federal workers, and that's approximately $100,000 per job. So these are high-paying jobs. There's approximately 15,500 federal workers living in Alaska, and across all states, we're the third highest share of federal workers in a state's workforce.”
- Speaker
- Brock Wilson
- Timestamp
- 30:58 – 31:52
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- June 26, 2026
From the transcript
I am going to talk a little bit more about just the federal workforce in Alaska and particularly the sort of recent changes we've seen. So I think sort of a nice big picture summary statistics we care about, over $1.5 billion is federal civilian wages paid to Alaskan federal workers, and that's approximately $100,000 per job. So these are high-paying jobs. There's approximately 15,500 federal workers living in Alaska, and across all states, we're the third highest share of federal workers in a state's workforce. So this is really to sort of set the stage that the federal workforce plays a large component in our economy, and changes at the national level fall particularly harder on states with higher reliance on the federal workforce.
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