Arizona · NAICS 517 · Annual, 2025
Telecommunications in Arizona
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 517 in Arizona, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Telecommunications (NAICS 517) employed about 11,800 people in Arizona across roughly 726 establishments, with average annual pay of $105,760.
Employment in Telecommunications in Arizona declined 21.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 45.1% above the all-industries average in Arizona. Employment fell 45.9% from 2004 to 2024 and has since recovered 0.2% of that loss. 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.
- 11,800Employment, 2025
- 726Establishments
- $105,760Avg. annual pay
- 0.4%Share of Arizona jobs
- 0.95Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 21,700; 2005 19,300; 2006 18,400; 2007 16,100; 2008 15,900; 2009 15,300; 2010 14,100; 2011 14,000; 2012 13,800; 2013 14,000; 2014 15,100; 2015 15,300; 2016 15,300; 2017 15,000; 2018 15,800; 2019 15,700; 2020 14,900; 2021 13,800; 2022 13,300; 2023 12,300; 2024 11,800; 2025 11,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,769 | 726 | $105,757 | 0.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 11,750 | 771 | $99,869 | 4.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 12,267 | 775 | $97,651 | 7.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 13,321 | 769 | $91,031 | 3.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 13,823 | 723 | $83,428 | 7.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 14,898 | 777 | $81,516 | 4.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 15,669 | 740 | $75,400 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 15,843 | 706 | $73,128 | 5.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 15,011 | 631 | $71,853 | 2.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 15,316 | 641 | $68,909 | 0.2% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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.
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Telecommunications in Arizona, quarterly, at full depth
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