5 thinnest healthcare supplies in Alaska

A staffing plan treated Alaska's aide headcount as proof the nursing bench was deep enough.

Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses have a concentration of 0.21, about a fifth as common in Alaska jobs as in the country, and employment of 290. Jobs per 1,000 are 0.877. That is a small occupation. Another posting reaches the same 290 people.

The aide group, home health and personal care, numbers 6,530, which looks ample next to 290, and their concentration is still 0.72, a thinner share than a typical state. Headcount and share disagree. Use both before you decide the market is thick.

Ranked table

Takeaways

• Nursing assistants number 2,060 with a concentration of 0.68 and 6.334 jobs per 1,000.
• Phlebotomists number 210, concentration 0.71.
• Radiologic technologists and technicians number 370, concentration 0.77.
• Alaska is 2 of 51 on the thinnest of these shares. The aide total does not fill the practical-nurse gap.

For recruiters

• When practical nurses are the open job, write 290 on the intake and stop comparing it with the aide total.
• Where the share is under 1, say the occupation is a thinner slice of local jobs than in a typical state.

FAQ

Are these posted wages or open jobs?

No. The table is a government survey or a designation file.

What should a recruiter do first?

Follow the recruiter note on this page.

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

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Methodology

The location quotient is the occupation's share of Alaska jobs divided by its share of U.S. jobs. A lower figure is a thinner local supply relative to the national mix. The 5 lowest figures on the hiring-list occupations are shown. OEWS May 2025. Sorted by the lowest figure, Alaska is 2 of 51. A row links to the Alaska metro page with the highest public market difficulty score for that occupation when one is published, and otherwise to the occupation page on the hiring grid. An unpublished percentile or employment count is shown as unpublished rather than replaced with a zero. The wages are annual OEWS figures. They are not job listings and they are not an employer's current offer. Read the comparison beside the dollar figures: a high state wage can still sit under the national median for that occupation, and a lower state wage can still sit above it.

Sources

• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics · May 2025