Delaware · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Delaware
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in Delaware, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 370 people in Delaware across roughly 106 establishments, with average annual pay of $34,270.
Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Delaware grew 71.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Delaware than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.33). Average pay in the industry is 54.6% below the all-industries average in Delaware. 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.
- 370Employment, 2025
- 106Establishments
- $34,270Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of Delaware jobs
- 0.33Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 380; 2005 340; 2006 320; 2007 310; 2008 310; 2009 310; 2010 290; 2011 290; 2012 300; 2013 320; 2014 340; 2015 380; 2016 390; 2017 430; 2018 430; 2019 430; 2020 220; 2021 280; 2022 400; 2023 440; 2024 390; 2025 370.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 372 | 106 | $34,273 | 5.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 391 | 103 | $30,224 | 11.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 444 | 97 | $29,268 | 11.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 397 | 87 | $27,642 | 43.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 277 | 71 | $25,275 | 27.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 217 | 59 | $23,556 | 49.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 426 | 51 | $18,415 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 431 | 50 | $17,661 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2017 | 431 | 54 | $17,211 | 10.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 388 | 57 | $18,326 | 3.3% | 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.
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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Delaware, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for motion picture and sound recording industries in Delaware. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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