Alaska · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Alaska
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in Alaska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 340 people in Alaska across roughly 46 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,770.
Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Alaska declined 17.5% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Alaska than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.44). Average pay in the industry is 64.5% below the all-industries average in Alaska. 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.
- 340Employment, 2025
- 46Establishments
- $26,770Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of Alaska jobs
- 0.44Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 410; 2005 380; 2006 380; 2007 370; 2008 360; 2009 370; 2010 500; 2011 410; 2012 370; 2013 420; 2014 410; 2015 430; 2016 480; 2017 490; 2018 480; 2019 480; 2020 280; 2021 350; 2022 450; 2023 440; 2024 410; 2025 340.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 336 | 46 | $26,768 | 17.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 407 | 51 | $31,209 | 8.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 444 | 52 | $30,509 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 448 | 48 | $30,128 | 29.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 347 | 45 | $31,034 | 25.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 277 | 39 | $28,864 | 42.0% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2019 | 479 | 42 | $20,710 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 484 | 40 | $19,089 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 489 | 40 | $18,890 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2016 | 479 | 45 | $14,227 | 10.6% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Alaska, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for motion picture and sound recording industries in Alaska. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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