03-27-2012, 09:23 AM
The seafood processing plants pay Alaska minimum wage of $7.75/hour. The word cannery is often used, but not much of it is canned anymore. Most of it is barged out frozen, about 5% of it it is flown out. I've been inside 16 different seafood processing plants and haven't seen a single job there that I would want to do myself, especially not for minimum wage. Most of the workers are flown in from Mexico, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, and other locations where $7.75/hour is considered good money.
Over fishing has pretty much made the high wage fishing jobs a thing of the past, and cheap imported labor is usually used.
There are a lot of fun summer jobs in the tourist industry. They are also minimum wage and mostly employ younger people who do it for the adventure and spend most of their earnings on beer and good times. Some of them include room and board, and some of those charge for it- but not much, like $10/day. If the job is at a remote site- be forewarned that some outfits only transport the workers to civilization once or twice during the season. Should hurry though, they usually start staffing and training at the end of April and go live in the beginning of May. The hiring period is already well underway.
Over fishing has pretty much made the high wage fishing jobs a thing of the past, and cheap imported labor is usually used.
There are a lot of fun summer jobs in the tourist industry. They are also minimum wage and mostly employ younger people who do it for the adventure and spend most of their earnings on beer and good times. Some of them include room and board, and some of those charge for it- but not much, like $10/day. If the job is at a remote site- be forewarned that some outfits only transport the workers to civilization once or twice during the season. Should hurry though, they usually start staffing and training at the end of April and go live in the beginning of May. The hiring period is already well underway.