Arkansas · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in Arkansas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 750 people in Arkansas across roughly 76 establishments, with average annual pay of $67,520.

Employment in Air Transportation in Arkansas grew 7.1% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Arkansas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.16). Employment fell 44.7% from 2004 to 2014 and has since recovered 29.4% of that loss. 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.

  • 750Employment, 2025
  • 76Establishments
  • $67,520Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Arkansas jobs
  • 0.16Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in Arkansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 1,100 to 750.05001K1.5K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 1,100; 2005 1,020; 2006 950; 2007 910; 2008 970; 2009 800; 2010 800; 2011 950; 2012 870; 2013 780; 2014 610; 2015 630; 2016 650; 2017 700; 2018 750; 2019 740; 2020 720; 2021 680; 2022 700; 2023 640; 2024 700; 2025 750.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202575176$67,521 7.1%pub.
202470164$68,161 8.9%pub.
202364455$63,820 8.6%pub.
202270452$50,339 4.3%pub.
202167543$47,091 6.3%pub.
202072144$45,053 3.0%pub.
201974445$42,881 0.9%pub.
201875149$38,972 6.7%pub.
201770452$38,394 8.2%pub.
201665052$37,681 3.0%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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Air Transportation in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth

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