Nebraska · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Nebraska

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Nebraska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 102,700 people in Nebraska across roughly 1,904 establishments, with average annual pay of $66,960.

Employment in Manufacturing in Nebraska grew 5.3% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Nebraska are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 102,700Employment, 2025
  • 1,904Establishments
  • $66,960Avg. annual pay
  • 10.1%Share of Nebraska jobs
  • 1.24Location 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

Employment in Manufacturing in Nebraska, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 100,700 to 102,700.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 100,700; 2005 101,300; 2006 101,500; 2007 101,100; 2008 101,400; 2009 93,300; 2010 91,600; 2011 93,600; 2012 95,000; 2013 96,500; 2014 97,500; 2015 97,300; 2016 96,900; 2017 98,100; 2018 99,900; 2019 100,000; 2020 97,600; 2021 99,600; 2022 103,400; 2023 104,800; 2024 104,400; 2025 102,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025102,7371,904$66,962 1.6%est. · 1.00
2024104,4321,931$65,442 0.4%pub.
2023104,8352,042$64,064 1.4%pub.
2022103,3922,087$62,740 3.8%pub.
202199,5732,028$59,992 2.1%est. · 1.00
202097,5761,951$56,493 2.4%est. · 1.00
201999,9591,976$52,716 0.1%est. · 1.00
201899,8521,990$51,565 1.8%est. · 1.00
201798,1261,979$49,568 1.2%est. · 1.00
201696,9241,973$47,494 0.4%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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing41,91140.8%3.60pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing8870.9%0.41pub.
313Textile Mills1070.1%0.20pub.
314Textile Product Mills2590.3%0.42pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing710.1%0.14pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing3710.4%2.39pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing2,0932.0%0.79pub.
322Paper Manufacturing1,2671.2%0.55pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities3,3443.3%1.47est. · 1.00
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing610.1%0.09pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing6,2346.1%1.06pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing5,1785.0%1.13pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing2,9382.9%1.08pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing1,0071.0%0.42pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing8,9798.7%0.96pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing8,1668.0%1.15pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing3,4583.4%0.53pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing1,7921.7%0.63pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing8,8968.7%0.76pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing1,3291.3%0.61pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing4,3904.3%1.09pub.

† 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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Manufacturing in Nebraska, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Nebraska. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.