Mississippi · All industries · Annual, 2025

Employment in Mississippi

Name: Employment in Mississippi
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Employment, establishments and average pay across all industries in Mississippi, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, employers in Mississippi had about 1,172,500 people on their payrolls across roughly 90,859 establishments, with average annual pay of $53,240.

Total employment in Mississippi grew 7.6% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 1,172,500. Quarterly values, full industry and occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Mississippi are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

1,172,500Employment, 2025
90,859Establishments
$53,240Avg. annual pay

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all industries · all ownerships

Employment by sector, 2025

NAICS sector · 20 sectors

Code	Sector	Employment	Share of Mississippi	LQ	Source
11	Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting	10,381	0.9%	1.11	pub.
21	Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction	3,110	0.3%	0.72	pub.
23	Construction	56,469	4.8%	0.89	pub.
31-33	Manufacturing	138,923	11.8%	1.46	pub.
22	Utilities	10,257	0.9%	1.55	pub.
42	Wholesale Trade	36,445	3.1%	0.80	pub.
44-45	Retail Trade	138,186	11.8%	1.19	pub.
48-49	Transportation and Warehousing	67,323	5.7%	1.18	pub.
51	Information	10,612	0.9%	0.47	pub.
52	Finance and Insurance	34,144	2.9%	0.71	pub.
53	Real Estate and Rental and Leasing	12,148	1.0%	0.66	pub.
54	Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services	45,121	3.9%	0.55	pub.
55	Management of Companies and Enterprises	11,505	1.0%	0.59	pub.
56	Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services	66,188	5.6%	0.96	pub.
61	Educational Services	108,974	9.3%	1.09	pub.
62	Health Care and Social Assistance	192,888	16.4%	1.02	pub.
71	Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation	13,137	1.1%	0.57	pub.
72	Accommodation and Food Services	127,456	10.9%	1.19	pub.
81	Other Services (except Public Administration)	22,584	1.9%	0.64	pub.
92	Public Administration	66,667	5.7%	1.12	pub.

One public page per sector and per 3-digit subsector, annual, with the mark on every value. A sector name is a link where its page is built.

Last ten years

Annual · all industries · 10 years

Year	Employment	Estab.	Avg. annual pay	Change	Source
2025	1,172,515	90,859	$53,236	0.4%	pub.
2024	1,167,716	89,321	$50,966	0.6%	pub.
2023	1,160,807	86,648	$49,128	1.3%	pub.
2022	1,145,453	81,283	$47,427	2.5%	pub.
2021	1,117,423	76,380	$44,958	2.5%	pub.
2020	1,089,820	74,436	$43,222	4.0%	pub.
2019	1,135,598	73,760	$40,687	0.4%	pub.
2018	1,130,786	73,797	$39,762	0.2%	pub.
2017	1,128,498	73,073	$38,788	0.3%	pub.
2016	1,124,854	73,172	$38,144	0.9%	pub.

Employment by occupation group, 2025

SOC major group · 22 groups

Code	Occupation group	Employment	Share of Mississippi	LQ
11-0000	Management occupations	55,277	4.7%	0.67
13-0000	Business and financial operations occupations	48,153	4.1%	0.61
15-0000	Computer and mathematical occupations	16,441	1.4%	0.42
17-0000	Architecture and engineering occupations	14,528	1.2%	0.74
19-0000	Life, physical, and social science occupations	7,863	0.7%	0.71
21-0000	Community and social service occupations	17,467	1.5%	0.88
23-0000	Legal occupations	6,218	0.5%	0.63
25-0000	Educational instruction and library occupations	70,067	6.0%	1.02
27-0000	Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	9,133	0.8%	0.59
29-0000	Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	86,878	7.4%	1.18
31-0000	Healthcare support occupations	49,300	4.2%	0.83
33-0000	Protective service occupations	33,637	2.9%	1.19
35-0000	Food preparation and serving related occupations	110,843	9.4%	1.08
37-0000	Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	33,997	2.9%	0.99
39-0000	Personal care and service occupations	22,389	1.9%	0.92
41-0000	Sales and related occupations	108,815	9.3%	1.08
43-0000	Office and administrative support occupations	142,439	12.2%	1.03
45-0000	Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	4,429	0.4%	1.34
47-0000	Construction and extraction occupations	48,468	4.1%	1.00
49-0000	Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	58,514	5.0%	1.28
51-0000	Production occupations	102,372	8.7%	1.57
53-0000	Transportation and material moving occupations	125,287	10.7%	1.21

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data. They carry no published or estimated mark and no reliability score, because there is no published occupation census to mark them against.

Where these numbers come from

What this page shows

Every industry sector in the state, and every occupation group, with annual employment for the most recent complete year in the current vintage, and the state’s own total over every actual year. Figures are for all ownerships combined and are not seasonally adjusted. County figures, quarterly figures and the full industry and occupation depth are in the app; the nation and every state are free there.

Reading the table

A state value is DTG’s value for the state: the value the Bureau of Labor Statistics published where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate where QCEW withheld it. It is not a sum of the state’s counties. Where a value was withheld in QCEW it is marked as estimated rather than left blank, with its reliability score, and the legend beneath the table names the marker. Every figure on the page comes from one named vintage, stated beside the page, and does not change until the next release.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry, Occupation.

Notes

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