Connecticut · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Connecticut

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

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 35,900 people in Connecticut across roughly 2,471 establishments, with average annual pay of $40,180.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Connecticut grew 45.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 55.8% below the all-industries average in Connecticut. Employment fell 51.5% from 2008 to 2020 and has since recovered 42.9% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Connecticut are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 35,900Employment, 2025
  • 2,471Establishments
  • $40,180Avg. annual pay
  • 2.1%Share of Connecticut jobs
  • 1.09Location 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 Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Connecticut, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 50,700 to 35,900.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 50,700; 2005 50,400; 2006 49,600; 2007 50,000; 2008 50,900; 2009 48,800; 2010 47,500; 2011 46,600; 2012 47,200; 2013 47,100; 2014 46,500; 2015 45,900; 2016 46,300; 2017 47,400; 2018 34,600; 2019 34,800; 2020 24,700; 2021 28,100; 2022 31,800; 2023 33,900; 2024 35,200; 2025 35,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202535,9182,471$40,180 2.1%est. · 1.00
202435,1662,494$39,101 3.8%est. · 1.00
202333,8692,455$38,005 6.5%est. · 1.00
202231,8052,323$37,024 13.1%est. · 1.00
202128,1242,251$36,490 13.9%est. · 1.00
202024,6872,185$36,626 29.1%est. · 1.00
201934,8282,157$30,224 0.6%est. · 1.00
201834,6202,085$29,717 27.0%est. · 1.00
201747,4202,028$32,027 2.5%pub.
201646,2732,013$31,721 0.9%pub.

† 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 arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries4,16311.6%0.65est. · 1.00
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions3,4139.5%1.21est. · 1.00
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries28,34378.9%1.19pub.

† 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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Connecticut, quarterly, at full depth

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

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