Alaska Healthcare Workforce: Five-Year Trends & Key Takeaways (2019–2024)

The Alaska Healthcare Workforce: Five-Year Trends & Key Takeaways (2019–2024) summarizes the major changes shaping Alaska’s healthcare workforce over the past five years. The report examines employment, wages, workforce composition, licensing trends, and the growing reliance on nonresident healthcare workers. It finds that while healthcare has become Alaska’s largest economic sector and continues to add jobs, workforce supply has failed to keep pace with demand. Nearly 10,000 new healthcare workers are needed each year, highlighting the need to expand training capacity, strengthen retention, and reduce long-term dependence on traveling healthcare professionals.