# Counties in Alaska by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 30 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/alaska-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Anchorage Municipality | 148,620 |
| 2 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 37,074 |
| 3 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 29,978 |
| 4 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 21,722 |
| 5 | Juneau City and Borough | 17,756 |
| 6 | North Slope Borough | 12,694 |
| 7 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 7,211 |
| 8 | Bethel Census Area | 6,225 |
| 9 | Kodiak Island Borough | 5,713 |
| 10 | Sitka City and Borough | 4,464 |
| 11 | Nome Census Area | 3,874 |
| 12 | Chugach Census Area | 3,615 |
| 13 | Aleutians West Census Area | 3,462 |
| 14 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 3,093 |
| 15 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 3,010 |
| 16 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 2,306 |
| 17 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 2,131 |
| 18 | Denali Borough | 2,058 |
| 19 | Kusilvak Census Area | 2,032 |
| 20 | Dillingham Census Area | 2,027 |
| 21 | Aleutians East Borough | 1,835 |
| 22 | Petersburg Borough | 1,300 |
| 23 | Bristol Bay Borough | 1,196 |
| 24 | Copper River Census Area | 1,091 |
| 25 | Haines Borough | 1,055 |
| 26 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 1,030 |
| 27 | Skagway Municipality | 949 |
| 28 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 817 |
| 29 | Wrangell City and Borough | 796 |
| 30 | Yakutat City and Borough | 313 |