Alaska · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Alaska

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Alaska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 25,700 people in Alaska across roughly 1,447 establishments, with average annual pay of $90,760.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Alaska grew 33.0% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in Alaska as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.59). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 25,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Alaska are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 25,700Employment, 2025
  • 1,447Establishments
  • $90,760Avg. annual pay
  • 7.7%Share of Alaska jobs
  • 1.59Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Alaska, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 22,000 to 25,700.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 22,000; 2005 22,300; 2006 22,500; 2007 22,600; 2008 22,900; 2009 22,000; 2010 21,300; 2011 21,600; 2012 22,000; 2013 21,700; 2014 21,500; 2015 21,900; 2016 22,100; 2017 22,000; 2018 22,300; 2019 22,600; 2020 19,300; 2021 20,400; 2022 22,600; 2023 23,600; 2024 24,800; 2025 25,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202525,6981,447$90,761 3.7%pub.
202424,7711,444$88,764 5.1%pub.
202323,5721,426$86,989 4.4%pub.
202222,5831,406$84,603 10.5%pub.
202120,4451,412$81,250 5.8%est. · 0.98
202019,3291,396$80,067 14.4%est. · 0.98
201922,5891,389$70,059 1.3%est. · 0.98
201822,2941,370$67,693 1.3%est. · 0.98
201722,0141,349$65,007 0.2%est. · 0.98
201622,0541,345$63,436 0.9%est. · 0.98

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation6,47325.2%5.30pub.
482Rail Transportation7512.9%243.50pub.
483Water Transportation1,2144.7%8.03pub.
484Truck Transportation3,16712.3%1.00pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation1,3975.4%0.78pub.
486Pipeline Transportation6962.7%5.72est. · 0.92
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation2,4179.4%36.19pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation3,71814.5%1.94pub.
491Postal Service1,6176.3%1.26est. · 0.98
492Couriers and Messengers3,65414.2%1.52pub.
493Warehousing and Storage5952.3%0.15pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Transportation and Warehousing in Alaska, quarterly, at full depth

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