
Kevin Berry
8:05 - 8:38
"You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide."
“You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide.”
- Speaker
- Kevin Berry
- Timestamp
- 8:05 – 8:38
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- May 26, 2026
From the transcript
I— people that are really deep into their own organizations will tell you that that's a really complicated question because there's lots of subsidiaries and different holdings. What I'm showing here is where employees of ANCSA corporations and their subsidiaries are based. And I think this is a good kind of approximation of where this work is happening. You can see that there's about 8,000 to 9,000 based in Alaska. But the regional corporations employ about 50,000 people worldwide.
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