California · NAICS 713 · Annual, 2025

Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in California

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 713 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries (NAICS 713) employed about 291,600 people in California across roughly 10,316 establishments, with average annual pay of $39,990.

Employment in Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in California grew 68.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 58.8% below the all-industries average in California. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 291,600. 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.

  • 291,600Employment, 2025
  • 10,316Establishments
  • $39,990Avg. annual pay
  • 1.6%Share of California jobs
  • 1.14Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 221,900 to 291,600.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 221,900; 2005 224,800; 2006 227,800; 2007 234,800; 2008 237,500; 2009 229,500; 2010 226,000; 2011 225,300; 2012 230,900; 2013 234,100; 2014 238,800; 2015 248,400; 2016 255,100; 2017 257,500; 2018 266,600; 2019 276,500; 2020 173,400; 2021 197,700; 2022 250,000; 2023 272,600; 2024 283,100; 2025 291,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025291,58310,316$39,988 3.0%pub.
2024283,1359,784$38,359 3.9%pub.
2023272,6189,637$37,524 9.0%pub.
2022250,0239,366$37,013 26.5%pub.
2021197,6779,168$36,593 14.0%pub.
2020173,4309,354$35,095 37.3%pub.
2019276,4919,012$30,016 3.7%pub.
2018266,5518,481$28,944 3.5%est. · 1.00
2017257,5467,616$28,214 0.9%pub.
2016255,1387,174$28,244 2.7%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries in California, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for amusement, gambling, and recreation industries in California. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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