Nebraska · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in Nebraska

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Nebraska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 500 people in Nebraska across roughly 51 establishments, with average annual pay of $81,450.

Employment in Air Transportation in Nebraska grew 9.3% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Nebraska than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.13). Employment fell 43.9% from 2006 to 2021 and has since recovered 48.5% of that loss. 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.

  • 500Employment, 2025
  • 51Establishments
  • $81,450Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Nebraska jobs
  • 0.13Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in Nebraska, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 610 to 500.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 610; 2005 590; 2006 640; 2007 630; 2008 630; 2009 570; 2010 540; 2011 510; 2012 540; 2013 480; 2014 460; 2015 450; 2016 400; 2017 430; 2018 470; 2019 480; 2020 420; 2021 360; 2022 370; 2023 440; 2024 450; 2025 500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202549651$81,450 9.3%pub.
202445441$82,655 3.6%pub.
202343839$79,769 17.3%pub.
202237334$69,342 3.9%pub.
202135931$65,699 13.5%pub.
202041529$59,879 13.6%pub.
201948133$54,058 2.1%pub.
201847135$51,921 9.8%pub.
201742940$53,945 6.1%pub.
201640441$55,467 10.4%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

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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Air Transportation in Nebraska, quarterly, at full depth

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

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