Minnesota · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Minnesota

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 148,600 people in Minnesota across roughly 18,607 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,310.

Employment in Construction in Minnesota grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 148,600. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 148,600Employment, 2025
  • 18,607Establishments
  • $92,310Avg. annual pay
  • 5.1%Share of Minnesota jobs
  • 0.93Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Minnesota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 135,300 to 148,600.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 135,300; 2005 136,600; 2006 133,600; 2007 127,400; 2008 117,500; 2009 100,600; 2010 94,800; 2011 98,500; 2012 101,600; 2013 107,300; 2014 114,300; 2015 121,700; 2016 122,800; 2017 126,600; 2018 128,800; 2019 134,300; 2020 131,000; 2021 137,200; 2022 139,900; 2023 143,000; 2024 145,200; 2025 148,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025148,59918,607$92,309 2.4%pub.
2024145,18718,602$88,218 1.5%pub.
2023143,04218,388$83,607 2.3%pub.
2022139,88018,001$79,671 1.9%pub.
2021137,24017,168$77,366 4.8%pub.
2020130,96917,154$72,779 2.5%est. · 1.00
2019134,26716,902$69,528 4.3%est. · 1.00
2018128,76416,686$67,080 1.7%est. · 1.00
2017126,60715,952$65,276 3.1%est. · 1.00
2016122,78915,460$63,124 0.9%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 constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings31,98921.5%0.91pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction26,52017.8%1.03pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors90,09060.6%0.92pub.

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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Construction in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth

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