Arizona · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Arizona

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 152,800 people in Arizona across roughly 5,712 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,660.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Arizona grew 20.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 152,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arizona are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 152,800Employment, 2025
  • 5,712Establishments
  • $63,660Avg. annual pay
  • 4.7%Share of Arizona jobs
  • 0.97Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Arizona, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 78,700 to 152,800.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 78,700; 2005 80,800; 2006 83,800; 2007 84,600; 2008 84,700; 2009 79,500; 2010 75,600; 2011 78,100; 2012 79,900; 2013 80,400; 2014 82,500; 2015 86,300; 2016 90,000; 2017 93,800; 2018 107,400; 2019 115,400; 2020 126,900; 2021 140,100; 2022 145,700; 2023 149,900; 2024 152,500; 2025 152,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025152,7865,712$63,659 0.2%pub.
2024152,5375,894$62,096 1.7%pub.
2023149,9335,871$57,242 2.9%pub.
2022145,7005,345$54,951 4.0%pub.
2021140,0784,815$52,309 10.4%pub.
2020126,8754,321$51,679 9.9%pub.
2019115,4214,102$51,656 7.5%pub.
2018107,3933,756$51,475 14.5%pub.
201793,7643,314$51,910 4.2%pub.
201690,0013,275$50,818 4.3%pub.

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 Transportation15,0539.8%1.27pub.
482Rail Transportation20.0%0.06est. · 0.96
483Water Transportation50.0%<0.01est. · 0.96
484Truck Transportation25,31916.6%0.82pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation9,6356.3%0.55pub.
486Pipeline Transportation5250.3%0.44est. · 0.99
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation6120.4%0.94pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation18,80512.3%1.01pub.
491Postal Service10,5096.9%0.84pub.
492Couriers and Messengers20,26113.3%0.87pub.
493Warehousing and Storage52,06034.1%1.31est. · 1.00

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 Arizona, quarterly, at full depth

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