New Jersey · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025
Manufacturing in New Jersey
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 249,900 people in New Jersey across roughly 9,730 establishments, with average annual pay of $104,860.
Employment in Manufacturing in New Jersey grew 5.9% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in New Jersey than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.72). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 249,900Employment, 2025
- 9,730Establishments
- $104,860Avg. annual pay
- 5.8%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 0.72Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 335,400; 2005 326,200; 2006 321,800; 2007 311,400; 2008 298,200; 2009 265,300; 2010 255,900; 2011 251,500; 2012 244,000; 2013 241,400; 2014 240,300; 2015 236,000; 2016 240,700; 2017 242,500; 2018 245,600; 2019 249,500; 2020 235,900; 2021 239,200; 2022 248,700; 2023 252,300; 2024 253,000; 2025 249,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 249,862 | 9,730 | $104,862 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 253,006 | 9,809 | $99,560 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 252,317 | 9,956 | $96,445 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 248,699 | 9,966 | $92,595 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 239,168 | 9,346 | $88,979 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2020 | 235,850 | 8,964 | $86,277 | 5.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 249,463 | 8,994 | $81,649 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 245,593 | 8,976 | $80,088 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 242,475 | 8,962 | $78,813 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 240,710 | 8,890 | $78,584 | 2.0% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 21 shown
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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Manufacturing in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in New Jersey. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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