Health & Medicine

There are few industries in Alaska as large or that have grown as much as health care. It has a presence nearly everywhere in the state and includes a broad spectrum of occupations, ranging from surgeons to home health aides. The industry employs more people in Alaska than the federal government, state government, oil industry or most other industries. The industry had at least 29,000 jobs in 2007 and its payroll was about $1.2 billion.
Nearly as impressive as the sheer size of the state's health care industry is the lightning speed at which it grows. The number of wage and salary jobs in the industry increased 40 percent between 2000 and 2007, from 20,700 jobs to 29,000. It is still growing, and there is demand for more workers in this field.

Source. Alaska Economic Trends, Neal Fried, Feb. 2008