Louisiana · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Louisiana

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Louisiana, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 34,800 people in Louisiana across roughly 2,472 establishments, with average annual pay of $46,730.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Louisiana grew 26.7% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 41.8% from 2004 to 2020 and has since recovered 37.2% of that loss. 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.

  • 34,800Employment, 2025
  • 2,472Establishments
  • $46,730Avg. annual pay
  • 1.8%Share of Louisiana jobs
  • 0.93Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Louisiana, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 47,200 to 34,800.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 47,200; 2005 44,400; 2006 39,800; 2007 42,300; 2008 42,700; 2009 38,200; 2010 37,800; 2011 37,300; 2012 37,700; 2013 38,600; 2014 39,300; 2015 38,700; 2016 37,900; 2017 37,600; 2018 37,000; 2019 37,200; 2020 27,500; 2021 27,900; 2022 31,000; 2023 32,800; 2024 34,100; 2025 34,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202534,8192,472$46,730 2.0%pub.
202434,1222,388$45,760 4.1%est. · 1.00
202332,7712,354$46,412 5.8%est. · 1.00
202230,9752,287$44,934 10.9%est. · 1.00
202127,9422,215$43,140 1.7%est. · 1.00
202027,4802,137$40,917 26.2%est. · 1.00
201937,2372,057$36,229 0.7%est. · 1.00
201836,9671,942$34,882 1.7%est. · 1.00
201737,6091,875$32,569 0.7%est. · 1.00
201637,8711,801$31,800 2.1%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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries5,45015.7%0.75est. · 1.00
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions3,86811.1%1.20est. · 0.98
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries25,50073.2%0.94pub.

† 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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Louisiana, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Louisiana. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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