High paying production jobs in Anchorage, AK with no experience

The best paid production occupations in Anchorage, AK that require neither a degree nor prior experience in a related job. This is the narrowest cut on the site, so it is also the shortest list: where a field has only two or three such occupations, there is no page at all rather than a page pretending otherwise.

Cost of living: prices in Anchorage, AK run 5.4% above the national average (2024), so a Anchorage, AK salary is worth about 0.95× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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OccupationMedian, Anchorage, AK · Employed

1Power Plant Operators$96,630
High school diploma or equivalent
$42,950 – $135,690150
2Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators$80,740
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,800 – $99,530150
3Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers$74,000
High school diploma or equivalent
$46,680 – $96,200250
4Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers$71,470
High school diploma or equivalent
$45,400 – $100,87080
5Butchers and Meat Cutters$52,130
No formal educational credential
$35,900 – $73,630110
6Miscellaneous Assemblers and Fabricators$48,670
High school diploma or equivalent
$35,840 – $69,030130
7Printing Press Operators$46,860
High school diploma or equivalent
$31,680 – $69,85090
8Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic$46,100
High school diploma or equivalent
$43,770 – $63,36060
9Helpers--Production Workers$42,530
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,670 – $63,760160
10Production Workers, All Other$40,610
High school diploma or equivalent
$36,680 – $92,29070
11Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers$38,480
No formal educational credential
$29,320 – $50,860320
12Bakers$38,020
No formal educational credential
$34,550 – $64,110290
13Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders$38,020
High school diploma or equivalent
$32,000 – $53,820140
14Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers$37,280
No formal educational credential
$32,080 – $48,80060

Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

#	Occupation	MedianAnchorage, AK	10th–90th percentilemiddle half shaded darker	Employed
1	Power Plant OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$96,630	$42,950 – $135,690	150
2	Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$80,740	$46,800 – $99,530	150
3	Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and BrazersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$74,000	$46,680 – $96,200	250
4	Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and WeighersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$71,470	$45,400 – $100,870	80
5	Butchers and Meat CuttersNo formal educational credential	$52,130	$35,900 – $73,630	110
6	Miscellaneous Assemblers and FabricatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$48,670	$35,840 – $69,030	130
7	Printing Press OperatorsHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,860	$31,680 – $69,850	90
8	Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and PlasticHigh school diploma or equivalent	$46,100	$43,770 – $63,360	60
9	Helpers--Production WorkersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$42,530	$36,670 – $63,760	160
10	Production Workers, All OtherHigh school diploma or equivalent	$40,610	$36,680 – $92,290	70
11	Laundry and Dry-Cleaning WorkersNo formal educational credential	$38,480	$29,320 – $50,860	320
12	BakersNo formal educational credential	$38,020	$34,550 – $64,110	290
13	Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and TendersHigh school diploma or equivalent	$38,020	$32,000 – $53,820	140
14	Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and TrimmersNo formal educational credential	$37,280	$32,080 – $48,800	60

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Anchorage, AK. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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