Arizona · NAICS 492 · Annual, 2025

Couriers and Messengers in Arizona

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 492 in Arizona, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492) employed about 20,300 people in Arizona across roughly 418 establishments, with average annual pay of $51,790.

Employment in Couriers and Messengers in Arizona grew 13.6% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 20,300. 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.

  • 20,300Employment, 2025
  • 418Establishments
  • $51,790Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of Arizona jobs
  • 0.87Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Couriers and Messengers in Arizona, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 8,950 to 20,300.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 8,950; 2005 9,250; 2006 9,540; 2007 9,810; 2008 9,530; 2009 8,900; 2010 8,260; 2011 8,380; 2012 8,710; 2013 9,210; 2014 9,710; 2015 10,200; 2016 10,600; 2017 11,100; 2018 12,300; 2019 14,100; 2020 17,800; 2021 19,100; 2022 19,700; 2023 19,300; 2024 19,700; 2025 20,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202520,261418$51,788 3.0%pub.
202419,665431$49,399 1.7%pub.
202319,341447$47,122 1.6%pub.
202219,656423$44,164 2.6%pub.
202119,149389$43,271 7.4%pub.
202017,836364$42,050 26.3%pub.
201914,127333$42,107 14.5%pub.
201812,339325$42,887 11.0%pub.
201711,116306$42,361 5.3%pub.
201610,552291$41,150 3.3%pub.

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

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.

Notes

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Couriers and Messengers in Arizona, quarterly, at full depth

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