Alabama · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Alabama

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 87,900 people in Alabama across roughly 5,574 establishments, with average annual pay of $60,110.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Alabama grew 15.2% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Alabama are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 87,900Employment, 2025
  • 5,574Establishments
  • $60,110Avg. annual pay
  • 4.1%Share of Alabama jobs
  • 0.85Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Alabama, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 63,500 to 87,900.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 63,500; 2005 66,400; 2006 68,600; 2007 69,500; 2008 68,900; 2009 63,400; 2010 62,700; 2011 63,500; 2012 65,000; 2013 66,600; 2014 68,400; 2015 69,300; 2016 70,000; 2017 70,900; 2018 73,000; 2019 76,000; 2020 76,300; 2021 89,000; 2022 92,100; 2023 90,300; 2024 89,200; 2025 87,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202587,8575,574$60,107 1.5%pub.
202489,1895,557$58,252 1.3%pub.
202390,3355,517$56,096 1.9%pub.
202292,0895,386$52,733 3.5%pub.
202188,9874,989$49,841 16.7%est. · 1.00
202076,2744,666$50,688 0.4%est. · 1.00
201975,9914,591$49,148 4.0%est. · 1.00
201873,0474,505$48,241 3.0%est. · 1.00
201770,9004,419$46,392 1.3%est. · 1.00
201669,9864,275$45,154 1.0%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation7630.9%0.10pub.
482Rail Transportation60.0%0.29est. · 0.91
483Water Transportation4830.5%0.50pub.
484Truck Transportation25,75629.3%1.28pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation6,7117.6%0.59pub.
486Pipeline Transportation6030.7%0.78pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation750.1%0.18est. · 0.95
488Support Activities for Transportation10,73112.2%0.88est. · 0.99
491Postal Service9,14510.4%1.11pub.
492Couriers and Messengers11,58313.2%0.76pub.
493Warehousing and Storage22,00125.0%0.85est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Transportation and Warehousing in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth

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