There is almost no factory jobs up here, hardly any place for unskilled workers. There are places like the big box stores and of course the slime lines of the fish factories but hardly any year round assembly jobs that you are accustomed to seeing in the lower 48.
But with the right skill a person can make out like a bandit and should only have to really work just a couple of months a year.
Kinda makes a real knock against a socialist society in a way because you just cannot force or introduce a peoples work force in Alaska, unless its a prison. And even that project has recently failed.
That is why so many people run up there work during tourists season and then back to the lower 48. Brother said the owner of the boat he went fishing on lived in North Carolina . Very telling!!!!