Iowa · NAICS 484 · Annual, 2025

Truck Transportation in Iowa

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 484 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Truck Transportation (NAICS 484) employed about 24,900 people in Iowa across roughly 2,719 establishments, with average annual pay of $68,470.

Employment in Truck Transportation in Iowa declined 16.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.7× as concentrated in Iowa as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.69). 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.

  • 24,900Employment, 2025
  • 2,719Establishments
  • $68,470Avg. annual pay
  • 1.6%Share of Iowa jobs
  • 1.69Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Truck Transportation in Iowa, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 28,300 to 24,900.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,300; 2005 29,400; 2006 30,700; 2007 31,200; 2008 30,400; 2009 28,900; 2010 29,100; 2011 30,200; 2012 30,400; 2013 30,300; 2014 30,200; 2015 30,600; 2016 30,400; 2017 30,400; 2018 30,900; 2019 31,400; 2020 30,000; 2021 29,000; 2022 28,500; 2023 27,800; 2024 26,000; 2025 24,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202524,9392,719$68,471 4.1%pub.
202426,0042,869$66,381 6.4%pub.
202327,7862,968$64,230 2.7%pub.
202228,5503,022$62,116 1.4%pub.
202128,9562,959$57,327 3.5%pub.
202029,9902,891$52,979 4.3%pub.
201931,3542,826$50,214 1.6%pub.
201830,8592,733$50,334 1.5%pub.
201730,4152,673$47,666 0.1%pub.
201630,3782,686$46,025 0.7%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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Truck Transportation in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth

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