California · NAICS 485 · Annual, 2025

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 485 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485) employed about 91,200 people in California across roughly 2,651 establishments, with average annual pay of $105,400.

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in California grew 21.3% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 91,200. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for California are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 91,200Employment, 2025
  • 2,651Establishments
  • $105,400Avg. annual pay
  • 0.5%Share of California jobs
  • 0.92Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 62,900 to 91,200.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 62,900; 2005 63,300; 2006 64,000; 2007 65,200; 2008 67,500; 2009 67,800; 2010 67,900; 2011 69,400; 2012 70,900; 2013 72,100; 2014 73,800; 2015 76,200; 2016 79,700; 2017 81,400; 2018 83,600; 2019 87,900; 2020 75,100; 2021 73,200; 2022 81,900; 2023 81,900; 2024 87,400; 2025 91,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202591,1602,651$105,400 4.3%pub.
202487,4472,536$108,288 6.7%pub.
202381,9352,423$103,673 0.1%pub.
202281,8702,244$96,199 11.9%pub.
202173,1582,183$104,938 2.6%pub.
202075,1242,231$97,321 14.5%pub.
201987,8672,244$103,596 5.1%pub.
201883,6212,194$68,668 2.7%pub.
201781,4372,123$58,141 2.2%pub.
201679,6562,033$54,221 4.5%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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Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in California, quarterly, at full depth

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