Iowa · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Iowa

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 72,500 people in Iowa across roughly 4,796 establishments, with average annual pay of $59,880.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Iowa grew 25.3% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Iowa are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 72,500Employment, 2025
  • 4,796Establishments
  • $59,880Avg. annual pay
  • 4.7%Share of Iowa jobs
  • 0.95Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Iowa, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 57,900 to 72,500.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 57,900; 2005 59,600; 2006 61,600; 2007 62,800; 2008 63,000; 2009 60,600; 2010 60,900; 2011 62,300; 2012 63,100; 2013 63,300; 2014 63,800; 2015 66,700; 2016 66,600; 2017 67,100; 2018 68,100; 2019 70,100; 2020 69,100; 2021 71,800; 2022 73,200; 2023 72,300; 2024 72,000; 2025 72,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202572,4854,796$59,884 0.6%pub.
202472,0304,964$58,762 0.4%pub.
202372,3145,067$57,299 1.3%pub.
202273,2485,098$55,153 2.1%pub.
202171,7715,018$51,899 3.9%pub.
202069,0524,926$49,525 1.5%pub.
201970,0834,869$47,181 2.9%pub.
201868,1264,729$47,135 1.5%pub.
201767,1384,652$44,995 0.7%pub.
201666,6464,666$43,681 0.1%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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation6160.9%0.11pub.
482Rail Transportation100.0%0.67est. · 0.87
483Water Transportation1750.2%0.25pub.
484Truck Transportation24,93934.4%1.69pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation5,0577.0%0.60pub.
486Pipeline Transportation4340.6%0.76pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation610.1%0.20est. · 0.91
488Support Activities for Transportation4,9906.9%0.55est. · 0.99
491Postal Service6,9489.6%1.15pub.
492Couriers and Messengers9,35812.9%0.83pub.
493Warehousing and Storage19,89627.5%1.04est. · 1.00

† 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

Data Tactical Group is an independent company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any federal agency.

Transportation and Warehousing in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for transportation and warehousing in Iowa. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.