Arkansas · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Arkansas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 72,600 people in Arkansas across roughly 9,035 establishments, with average annual pay of $66,270.

Employment in Construction in Arkansas grew 23.3% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arkansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 72,600Employment, 2025
  • 9,035Establishments
  • $66,270Avg. annual pay
  • 5.6%Share of Arkansas jobs
  • 1.03Location 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

Employment in Construction in Arkansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 58,100 to 72,600.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 58,100; 2005 61,400; 2006 63,600; 2007 63,100; 2008 62,900; 2009 57,500; 2010 54,500; 2011 52,900; 2012 53,000; 2013 51,100; 2014 51,700; 2015 54,900; 2016 56,000; 2017 56,900; 2018 56,700; 2019 58,400; 2020 58,900; 2021 61,000; 2022 63,800; 2023 69,100; 2024 72,900; 2025 72,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202572,5879,035$66,268 0.4%est. · 1.00
202472,8898,399$64,211 5.4%pub.
202369,1298,232$60,743 8.4%pub.
202263,7837,772$56,961 4.6%pub.
202160,9677,610$53,109 3.5%est. · 1.00
202058,8867,396$50,909 0.9%est. · 1.00
201958,3817,212$48,295 3.0%est. · 1.00
201856,6747,062$46,781 0.4%est. · 1.00
201756,8806,934$46,191 1.6%est. · 0.98
201656,0066,816$44,756 2.0%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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings14,01119.3%0.90pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction16,78423.1%1.47est. · 1.00
238Specialty Trade Contractors41,79357.6%0.96pub.

† 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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Construction in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth

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