PS.  There are 15,000 state government workers in Alaska, not 8,800.  Those workers average a salary of $58k per year.  The average Alaskan salary is currently $56k per year.  Tell me again how unfairly lined state workers pockets are.  To me they look decidedly average.

Numbers directly from the department of administration :
State employees;
http://doa.alaska.gov/dop/fileadmin/DOP_Home/pdf/dopannualreport.pdf

Alaskan average income (from the US dept of commerce):
https://www.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/pdf.cfm?fips=02000&areatype=STATE&geotype=3