Hawaii · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Hawaii

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Hawaii, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 35,500 people in Hawaii across roughly 1,432 establishments, with average annual pay of $76,880.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Hawaii grew 26.5% from 2020 to 2025. QCEW withheld part of this figure for Hawaii; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.99. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Hawaii are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 35,500Employment, 2025
  • 1,432Establishments
  • $76,880Avg. annual pay
  • 5.5%Share of Hawaii jobs
  • 1.13Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.99. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Hawaii, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 29,900 to 35,500.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 29,900; 2005 32,500; 2006 34,400; 2007 34,700; 2008 31,100; 2009 28,100; 2010 27,500; 2011 28,100; 2012 29,000; 2013 30,000; 2014 30,500; 2015 31,200; 2016 32,100; 2017 33,400; 2018 34,100; 2019 36,700; 2020 28,100; 2021 30,400; 2022 33,700; 2023 35,000; 2024 35,200; 2025 35,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202535,5431,432$76,876 1.0%est. · 0.99
202435,1771,432$76,494 0.4%est. · 1.00
202335,0241,386$72,421 3.8%est. · 1.00
202233,7481,337$66,404 11.1%est. · 1.00
202130,3911,287$63,808 8.2%est. · 0.99
202028,0921,260$64,419 23.5%est. · 1.00
201936,7381,220$56,582 7.8%est. · 1.00
201834,0961,142$57,249 2.2%est. · 0.99
201733,3721,139$57,040 4.0%est. · 0.99
201632,0951,111$53,903 2.8%est. · 0.99

† 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 · 9 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation9,77327.5%4.13pub.
483Water Transportation1,5014.2%5.12pub.
484Truck Transportation3,0608.6%0.50pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation5,67016.0%1.63est. · 0.96
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation3,60410.1%27.84pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation5,36815.1%1.44pub.
491Postal Service2,3986.8%0.96pub.
492Couriers and Messengers2,7587.8%0.59pub.
493Warehousing and Storage1,4124.0%0.18pub.

† 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.

Notes

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Transportation and Warehousing in Hawaii, quarterly, at full depth

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