(SitNews - Ketchikan, Alaska) - Comprehensive employment and wage data for the third quarter of 2013 have recently been released. Alaska employment peaked at 358,470 in August, the state’s highest monthly job count on re cord, according to the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

Statewide, third quarter employment is always the year’s highest due to Alaska’s seasonal economy said the department in a news relese. Average monthly employment during the third quarter of 2013 was 353,189, up 0.6 percent from the third quarter of 2012.

Statewide, employers paid $4.3 billion in wages, up 2.2 percent from the third quarter of 2012.

Statewide, private sector jobs were up 3,348 from the third quarter of 2012, partly due to the seafood processing industry adding more than 1,000 jobs to accommodate a large pink salmon harvest.

Other areas of growth statewide included the health care and social assistance sector, which added more than 750 jobs from the third quarter of 2012.

Average monthly federal employment fell by 993 statewide in the third quarter compared to the prior year. Statewide, local government jobs also declined in the same period, but the magnitude of the loss is overstated because school start dates vary from year to year.

In the Southeast Alaska Economic Region, there was a slight decrease in federal, state and local government employment compared to the same time period in 2013.

2014 Monthly Employment Stats for the Southeast Alaska Economic Region
Chart courtesy Alaska Department of Labor.

2013 & Earlier Monthly Employment Statistics for the SE Alaska Economic Region
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/ces/ces.cfm?at=60&a=000001&adj=0#y2013

Edited by Mary Kauffman, SitNews

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For more on specific industries, boroughs or census areas, visit
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/ces/

Southeast Alaska Economic Region Monthly Employment Statistics
http://live.laborstats.alaska.gov/ces/ces.cfm?at=60&a=000001&adj=0

Source of News: 

Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development
www.labor.state.ak.us

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