To live in Alaska, do they supply you with housing or just the yearly income of about $2000?

Question

To live in Alaska, do they supply you with housing or just the yearly income of about $2000?

Answer 1

My neighbor's son got into this program after he graduated from high school.  In St. Petersburg, Alaska, you can get a job working at the canneries skinning, scaling and canning fish. You work 8-14 hours a day standing up.  Your room, board and meals are deducted from your check. The pay is low. On your off time, you can go out in the town with the little $ you make.  I would compare it to the army, prison or a WW II concentration camp.  It is not a good deal. Pass it up.  If you want to go and work and Alaska, save a lot of $, rent a motel room there, and look for a job on your own. Good luck and enjoy your time in the great northwest!

Answer 2

They don't give you housing or money--it's a state, not your mother's house

Answer 3

You can find companies and other deals where you can get housing supplied to you, but the state government of Alaska does not provide you housing.

The "yearly income" you refer to is known as the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (or referred to as the PFD by locals).  The amount  varies from year to year (I believe the lowest I got was $800 in the late 80's..don't remember the highest I got).  You must actually physically reside in Alaska for 365 days prior to applying for a dividend check, so you wouldn't get a check for over a year as it is a one time a year distribution.

http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/

If you plan on moving there, you better have some money or someone to bail you out.  It is pretty spendy to live up there and good paying jobs can be pretty tough to come by.  High paying fishing jobs on good boats like you see on the Deadliest Catch are very tough to come by.  Most captains will make you work the less attractive fishing seasons to get a spot during the crab season.  If you don't get a boat job, the seafood industry up there is more than willing to prey on young individuals and spit them out while paying them s**t.

Answer 4

they no longer give that money out to new residents only the old timers get that anymore. and the only free housing is at the homeless shelters

Answer 5

You have to earn your money, and you are not supplied with housing. It is not a camp, Alaska is a state.

Answer 6

Who?  What??  You think someone is going to supply you with housing, or an automatic income!?  And, btw, 2000 is a decent income for a month in the US, not a year!

You have to work for a living in Alaska, just like anywhere else, and you have to pay rent or a mortgage, just like anywhere else.

Answer 7

and all the halibut you can eat.