Missouri · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025
Construction in Missouri
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 158,000 people in Missouri across roughly 17,950 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,990.
Employment in Construction in Missouri grew 17.2% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 158,000. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Missouri are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 158,000Employment, 2025
- 17,950Establishments
- $80,990Avg. annual pay
- 5.5%Share of Missouri jobs
- 1.01Location 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
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 150,000; 2005 153,400; 2006 157,100; 2007 156,700; 2008 149,500; 2009 128,000; 2010 115,200; 2011 112,100; 2012 112,700; 2013 116,200; 2014 118,800; 2015 123,000; 2016 129,100; 2017 131,600; 2018 131,300; 2019 135,400; 2020 134,800; 2021 140,100; 2022 147,000; 2023 151,600; 2024 154,900; 2025 158,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 158,006 | 17,950 | $80,991 | 2.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 154,895 | 17,225 | $77,250 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 151,563 | 17,516 | $73,348 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2022 | 147,004 | 16,863 | $68,286 | 4.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 140,132 | 16,271 | $66,085 | 3.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 134,841 | 16,181 | $63,243 | 0.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 135,390 | 15,578 | $60,416 | 3.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 131,323 | 15,036 | $58,162 | 0.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 131,564 | 15,587 | $56,631 | 1.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 129,077 | 15,066 | $54,874 | 5.0% | 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of construction | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | Construction of Buildings | 32,536 | 20.6% | 0.94 | pub. |
| 237 | Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | 29,581 | 18.7% | 1.17 | est. · 0.99 |
| 238 | Specialty Trade Contractors | 95,889 | 60.7% | 0.99 | pub. |
† 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.
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Construction in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction in Missouri. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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