Louisiana · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025
Construction in Louisiana
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Louisiana, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 146,400 people in Louisiana across roughly 13,244 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,260.
Employment in Construction in Louisiana grew 12.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Louisiana as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.40). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Louisiana are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 146,400Employment, 2025
- 13,244Establishments
- $82,260Avg. annual pay
- 7.6%Share of Louisiana jobs
- 1.40Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 126,100; 2005 127,800; 2006 139,100; 2007 142,900; 2008 144,200; 2009 139,600; 2010 130,000; 2011 130,900; 2012 135,200; 2013 139,900; 2014 147,900; 2015 149,300; 2016 148,500; 2017 155,700; 2018 160,800; 2019 151,100; 2020 130,400; 2021 138,300; 2022 137,900; 2023 140,000; 2024 149,200; 2025 146,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 146,353 | 13,244 | $82,263 | 1.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 149,173 | 12,968 | $79,195 | 6.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 140,027 | 13,025 | $73,475 | 1.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 137,862 | 12,649 | $67,494 | 0.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 138,251 | 12,119 | $64,658 | 6.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 130,425 | 11,588 | $64,086 | 13.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 151,112 | 11,229 | $63,659 | 6.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 160,760 | 11,081 | $62,711 | 3.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 155,729 | 11,063 | $60,625 | 4.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 148,523 | 10,801 | $58,558 | 0.5% | 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 · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of construction | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | Construction of Buildings | 23,323 | 15.9% | 1.01 | est. · 1.00 |
| 237 | Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | 55,401 | 37.9% | 3.28 | est. · 1.00 |
| 238 | Specialty Trade Contractors | 67,629 | 46.2% | 1.05 | est. · 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.
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Construction in Louisiana, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction in Louisiana. 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.