Arizona · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arizona

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Arizona, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 76,000 people in Arizona across roughly 3,285 establishments, with average annual pay of $52,980.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arizona grew 51.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 76,000. 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.

  • 76,000Employment, 2025
  • 3,285Establishments
  • $52,980Avg. annual pay
  • 2.4%Share of Arizona jobs
  • 1.20Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arizona, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 48,100 to 76,000.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 48,100; 2005 48,900; 2006 51,100; 2007 53,600; 2008 54,300; 2009 50,400; 2010 50,700; 2011 51,000; 2012 52,300; 2013 53,000; 2014 55,700; 2015 57,400; 2016 58,500; 2017 61,100; 2018 63,400; 2019 62,200; 2020 50,000; 2021 54,400; 2022 60,800; 2023 66,500; 2024 73,800; 2025 76,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202575,9703,285$52,977 2.9%pub.
202473,8173,262$53,002 11.1%pub.
202366,4523,134$51,416 9.2%pub.
202260,8302,871$48,231 11.8%pub.
202154,4072,633$44,255 8.7%pub.
202050,0412,473$43,791 19.5%pub.
201962,1622,371$39,511 2.0%pub.
201863,4422,206$38,758 3.9%pub.
201761,0701,941$37,375 4.3%pub.
201658,5221,840$36,495 1.9%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries13,59317.9%1.11est. · 1.00
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions4,5346.0%0.84est. · 0.99
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries57,84376.1%1.27pub.

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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arizona, quarterly, at full depth

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