District of Columbia · NAICS 711 · Annual, 2025

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in the District of Columbia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 711 in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711) employed about 6,740 people in the District of Columbia across roughly 434 establishments, with average annual pay of $109,870.

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in the District of Columbia grew 71.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.4× as concentrated in the District of Columbia as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.39). Employment fell 40.6% from 2019 to 2020 and has since recovered 104.3% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the District of Columbia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 6,740Employment, 2025
  • 434Establishments
  • $109,870Avg. annual pay
  • 0.9%Share of District of Columbia jobs
  • 2.39Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 3,890 to 6,740.02K4K6K8K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 3,890; 2005 4,250; 2006 4,340; 2007 4,510; 2008 4,800; 2009 4,840; 2010 4,950; 2011 4,740; 2012 4,960; 2013 5,000; 2014 5,330; 2015 5,500; 2016 5,880; 2017 6,000; 2018 6,440; 2019 6,620; 2020 3,930; 2021 3,970; 2022 6,030; 2023 6,730; 2024 6,920; 2025 6,740.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20256,736434$109,867 2.7%pub.
20246,923446$110,862 2.9%pub.
20236,731426$108,857 11.7%pub.
20226,026393$112,395 51.6%pub.
20213,975347$146,104 1.1%pub.
20203,930318$117,234 40.6%pub.
20196,620294$114,084 2.8%pub.
20186,441276$115,940 7.4%pub.
20176,000265$115,156 2.1%pub.
20165,876248$99,714 6.9%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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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in District of Columbia, quarterly, at full depth

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