Delaware · NAICS 331 · Annual, 2025

Primary Metal Manufacturing in Delaware

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 331 in Delaware, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Primary Metal Manufacturing (NAICS 331) employed about 330 people in Delaware across roughly 8 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,510.

Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Delaware grew 6.7% from 2024 to 2025. Employment fell 75.7% from 2007 to 2022 and has since recovered 27.3% of that loss. QCEW withheld part of this figure for Delaware; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.19. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Delaware are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 330Employment, 2025
  • 8Establishments
  • $78,510Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Delaware jobs
  • 0.30Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.19. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Delaware, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 640 to 330.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 640; 2005 600; 2006 650; 2007 740; 2008 730; 2009 580; 2010 560; 2011 620; 2012 640; 2013 580; 2014 210; 2015 190; 2016 200; 2017 190; 2018 190; 2019 240; 2020 190; 2021 180; 2022 180; 2023 260; 2024 310; 2025 330.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20253328$78,510 6.7%est. · 0.19
20243119$78,974 20.6%est. · 0.21
20232589$82,714 43.8%est. · 0.19
20221799$71,656 0.9%est. · 0.21
20211818$67,485 3.5%pub.
20201877$67,296 23.1%pub.
20192446$66,031 25.6%est. · 0.32
20181948$67,294 3.7%pub.
20171879$70,367 5.5%pub.
20161989$59,978 2.3%est. · 0.67

† 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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Primary Metal Manufacturing in Delaware, quarterly, at full depth

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