Iowa · NAICS 483 · Annual, 2025

Water Transportation in Iowa

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 483 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Water Transportation (NAICS 483) employed about 170 people in Iowa across roughly 9 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,040.

Employment in Water Transportation in Iowa grew 15.0% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Iowa than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.25). Employment fell 35.5% from 2007 to 2012 and has since recovered 56.4% of that loss. 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.

  • 170Employment, 2025
  • 9Establishments
  • $82,040Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Iowa jobs
  • 0.25Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Water Transportation in Iowa, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 200 to 170.010020030020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 200; 2005 190; 2006 160; 2007 210; 2008 200; 2009 200; 2010 180; 2011 160; 2012 130; 2013 130; 2014 160; 2015 160; 2016 160; 2017 150; 2018 140; 2019 140; 2020 140; 2021 140; 2022 140; 2023 150; 2024 150; 2025 170.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20251759$82,038 15.0%pub.
20241529$83,956 4.8%pub.
20231459$76,013 2.6%pub.
20221419$74,923 0.8%pub.
20211409$64,120 0.3%pub.
20201419$68,236 1.0%pub.
20191428$64,020 0.9%pub.
20181437$63,954 4.5%pub.
20171507$63,740 5.9%pub.
20161609$57,937 1.2%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.

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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Water Transportation in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth

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

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