What are employment projections?
Ten year occupational employment projections are produced biennially, and provide the data for Estimated Demand and the Alaska Employment Projections. Estimated and projected employment data include self-employed workers in that occupation. Self-employment is not normally captured in other measures of employment published by the Alaska Department of Labor, Research and Analysis Section. Growth openings occur when new jobs are created in the economy. Replacement openings occur when workers leave an occupation. Replacement openings can occur for many reasons, including retirement, leaving the state, or changing careers. Total openings are the sum of growth and replacement openings, and may not total due to rounding. Some occupational projections will fall outside of statistical error measurement guidelines or will disclose confidential information about an employer, and are therefore suppressed. Because of suppressed data, totals for AGIA groups and overall totals cannot be calculated.
