Louisiana · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Louisiana

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 93,600 people in Louisiana across roughly 5,910 establishments, with average annual pay of $73,100.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Louisiana grew 6.8% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 93,600. 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.

  • 93,600Employment, 2025
  • 5,910Establishments
  • $73,100Avg. annual pay
  • 4.9%Share of Louisiana jobs
  • 1.00Location 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

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Louisiana, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 78,100 to 93,600.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 78,100; 2005 77,900; 2006 77,400; 2007 79,900; 2008 80,600; 2009 75,400; 2010 74,700; 2011 77,000; 2012 78,900; 2013 81,400; 2014 84,800; 2015 84,200; 2016 79,400; 2017 77,800; 2018 80,800; 2019 84,000; 2020 79,700; 2021 80,900; 2022 85,400; 2023 85,500; 2024 87,700; 2025 93,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202593,6495,910$73,104 6.8%est. · 1.00
202487,6775,887$74,306 2.5%est. · 1.00
202385,5375,892$71,800 0.2%est. · 1.00
202285,3915,654$67,554 5.5%est. · 1.00
202180,9195,364$63,165 1.6%est. · 1.00
202079,6555,107$61,779 5.2%est. · 1.00
201984,0024,926$59,326 4.0%est. · 1.00
201880,7624,827$58,376 3.9%est. · 1.00
201777,7644,794$57,721 2.1%est. · 1.00
201679,4184,743$57,767 5.7%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 · 10 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation2,8953.1%0.41est. · 1.00
483Water Transportation9,89510.6%11.30pub.
484Truck Transportation16,86218.0%0.92pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation5,2015.5%0.50pub.
486Pipeline Transportation2,5932.8%3.68est. · 1.00
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation6440.7%1.66est. · 0.96
488Support Activities for Transportation20,31321.7%1.83est. · 1.00
491Postal Service8,0838.6%1.08est. · 1.00
492Couriers and Messengers11,84812.7%0.85est. · 1.00
493Warehousing and Storage15,31516.4%0.65est. · 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

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Transportation and Warehousing in Louisiana, quarterly, at full depth

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