Real Estate Jobs and MBA Programs in Alaska

There are plenty of job and employment prospects for real estate brokers in Alaska. There are currently 80 jobs for real estate brokers in Alaska and the national job pool is slated to rise by eight percent over the next 10 years. Real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

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Real estate brokers earn $37 per hour or $77,000 per year on average in Alaska. Nationally, their income is $37 hourly or $77,000 per year on average.

With a population of 698,473, Alaska, also called Great Land, has grown by 11.4 percent in the last 10 years. The capital is Juneau. There were a total of 452,986 jobs in 2008 and people in Alaska earned more than the previous year as the average annual income was $43,922, up from $41,081. Unemployment in Alaska jumped by 1.5 percentage points to 8.0 percent in 2009. Roughly 24.7 percent of Alaska residents have college degrees, which is lower than the national average.

In Alaska, the top employers are in oil extraction, transportation, general merchandise stores and other general merchandise stores.

One of the many things Alaska is known for, Prudhoe Bay, on the northern Alaskan coast, is North America's largest oil field. Alaska has many unique characteristics, but one fun fact in particular is Agattu, Attu, and Kiska are the only parts of North America occupied by Japanese troops during World War II.

Real Estate

Real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

They regularly sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others and maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws.

They are required to negotiate with others and try to resolve differences. Also, they must manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources.

Real estate brokers should be able to articulate ideas and problems and listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, real estate brokers must be thorough and dependable and be reliable.