Massachusetts · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Massachusetts

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 130,800 people in Massachusetts across roughly 5,309 establishments, with average annual pay of $72,950.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Massachusetts grew 9.4% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Massachusetts than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.74). QCEW withheld part of this figure for Massachusetts; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.99. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Massachusetts are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 130,800Employment, 2025
  • 5,309Establishments
  • $72,950Avg. annual pay
  • 3.6%Share of Massachusetts jobs
  • 0.74Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.99. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Massachusetts, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 102,100 to 130,800.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 102,100; 2005 100,700; 2006 100,400; 2007 101,800; 2008 100,900; 2009 95,400; 2010 95,700; 2011 96,200; 2012 97,000; 2013 98,100; 2014 101,200; 2015 104,400; 2016 107,100; 2017 109,700; 2018 111,300; 2019 113,600; 2020 103,400; 2021 110,100; 2022 116,000; 2023 117,500; 2024 119,700; 2025 130,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025130,8385,309$72,955 9.3%est. · 0.99
2024119,6555,147$72,046 1.8%est. · 1.00
2023117,5315,390$68,973 1.3%est. · 1.00
2022116,0285,455$66,452 5.4%est. · 1.00
2021110,0805,149$63,207 6.5%est. · 1.00
2020103,3614,812$61,432 9.0%est. · 1.00
2019113,6314,886$57,524 2.1%est. · 1.00
2018111,3434,818$55,904 1.5%est. · 1.00
2017109,6684,879$53,314 2.4%est. · 1.00
2016107,0544,739$53,122 2.5%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 · 10 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation11,9499.1%0.90pub.
483Water Transportation8630.7%0.52pub.
484Truck Transportation15,90412.2%0.46pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation32,44124.8%1.65est. · 0.96
486Pipeline Transportation1170.1%0.09est. · 0.85
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation1,5291.2%2.10pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation10,3807.9%0.50pub.
491Postal Service14,91811.4%1.06pub.
492Couriers and Messengers22,06216.9%0.84pub.
493Warehousing and Storage20,67615.8%0.46pub.

† 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 Massachusetts, quarterly, at full depth

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