High paying jobs?  Are you kidding?  The salaries mentioned in this article don't make the top 200 of Municipality of Anchorage employees (see: http://alaskapolicyforum.org/wp-content/uploads/Muni_payroll-higher-to-lower-AUg-13-2014.pdf).  They don't make the top 500 for state employees.  The oil companies trim moderate paying jobs.  But state and local governments don't cut their highly over-compensated staff.  And that's why Alaska is doomed.