Corporate 100 executive summary.

• Author: Harrington, Susan
• Position: Corporate 100 - Company overview

Welcome to the 2017 Corporate 100. Readers responded positively last year when we began ranking the Corporate 100 by the number of Alaska employees, so we've adopted that as our criteria going forward. Companies making the list have at least one physical Alaska location and reported the number of employees in Alaska via surveys we sent out earlier this year. The number of employees a company has in Alaska is self-reported and the survey asks for the peak number of Alaska employees. For companies that tied with the number of Alaska employees, we determined the rank by year founded. Because two companies tied for the number 100 rank, we made an exception and included both companies--this year's Corporate 100 has 101 companies total.

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Top Five Employers

We had a wave of new respondents to our survey this year and growth in the number of companies in the healthcare, seafood, and travel industries. In all, the 2017 Alaska Business Corporate 100 represents 89,329 jobs spread across fourteen industries. This year's companies reported 21,803 more jobs than last year's survey respondents.

Holland America Line is at the top of the list with 8,000 Alaska employees--22 percent of the corporation's worldwide employees. Overall, Travel & Tourism accounted for 11,250 jobs--12.6 percent of this year's Corporate 100.

NANA Regional Corporation took the number two spot with 5,296 Alaska employees--37.6 percent of the company's worldwide employee count. Arctic Slope Regional Corporation ranked fifth with 3,834 Alaska employees--37.3 percent of total ASRC jobs. Alaska Native organizations accounted for 14,913 Alaska employees--16.7 percent of the 2017 Corporate 100. Alaska Native organizations, through their subsidiaries and various holdings, participate in nearly every sector of the economy.

Trident Seafoods Corporation ranked number three with 4,600 employees--46 percent of their total employees. The Seafood industry reported 12,902 Alaska jobs--14.4 percent of the Corporate 100.

Providence Health & Services Alaska ranked number four with 4,000 employees--4 percent of worldwide Providence employees. Health and Wellness responders reported 17,208 jobs--19.3 percent of the Corporate 100.

It's no surprise that the business classifications of the top employers are also the top ranking industries, though in a slightly different order. Health & Wellness, Alaska Native Organizations, Seafood, and Travel & Tourism had the most Alaska employees...