Kansas · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025
Transportation and Warehousing in Kansas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Kansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 70,200 people in Kansas across roughly 3,467 establishments, with average annual pay of $61,760.
Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Kansas grew 10.4% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Kansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 70,200Employment, 2025
- 3,467Establishments
- $61,760Avg. annual pay
- 4.9%Share of Kansas jobs
- 1.01Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 49,400; 2005 49,500; 2006 50,100; 2007 51,300; 2008 50,900; 2009 48,200; 2010 47,100; 2011 48,400; 2012 49,600; 2013 49,600; 2014 50,300; 2015 50,900; 2016 53,600; 2017 57,000; 2018 59,700; 2019 62,900; 2020 63,600; 2021 68,400; 2022 71,100; 2023 70,700; 2024 70,200; 2025 70,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 70,204 | 3,467 | $61,756 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 70,169 | 3,502 | $59,348 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 70,686 | 3,484 | $56,739 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 71,101 | 3,411 | $54,237 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 68,414 | 3,357 | $50,591 | 7.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 63,602 | 3,255 | $49,804 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 62,911 | 3,262 | $47,554 | 5.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 59,732 | 3,254 | $46,501 | 4.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 57,031 | 3,276 | $45,100 | 6.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 53,640 | 3,329 | $44,788 | 5.3% | est. · 1.00 |
† 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of transportation and warehousing | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 481 | Air Transportation | 506 | 0.7% | 0.10 | est. · 0.99 |
| 484 | Truck Transportation | 17,008 | 24.2% | 1.25 | pub. |
| 485 | Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation | 4,079 | 5.8% | 0.53 | pub. |
| 486 | Pipeline Transportation | 1,178 | 1.7% | 2.25 | est. · 0.97 |
| 487 | Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation | 116 | 0.2% | 0.40 | est. · 0.99 |
| 488 | Support Activities for Transportation | 8,909 | 12.7% | 1.08 | pub. |
| 491 | Postal Service | 6,378 | 9.1% | 1.15 | pub. |
| 492 | Couriers and Messengers | 10,898 | 15.5% | 1.05 | pub. |
| 493 | Warehousing and Storage | 21,132 | 30.1% | 1.20 | pub. |
† 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.
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Transportation and Warehousing in Kansas, quarterly, at full depth
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