New York · NAICS 237 · Annual, 2025

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in New York

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 237 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (NAICS 237) employed about 35,600 people in New York across roughly 1,759 establishments, with average annual pay of $129,630.

Employment in Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in New York grew 16.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in New York than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.41). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 35,600. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New York are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 35,600Employment, 2025
  • 1,759Establishments
  • $129,630Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of New York jobs
  • 0.41Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 27,400 to 35,600.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 27,400; 2005 26,600; 2006 27,000; 2007 27,100; 2008 28,800; 2009 28,300; 2010 28,800; 2011 28,100; 2012 27,400; 2013 27,400; 2014 32,700; 2015 34,000; 2016 35,000; 2017 35,300; 2018 32,400; 2019 32,800; 2020 30,600; 2021 31,500; 2022 32,500; 2023 33,300; 2024 34,400; 2025 35,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202535,5731,759$129,630 3.4%pub.
202434,4201,736$128,518 3.4%pub.
202333,2991,707$119,086 2.4%pub.
202232,5321,636$115,078 3.4%pub.
202131,4771,671$110,456 2.7%pub.
202030,6471,666$107,460 6.5%pub.
201932,7581,619$106,588 1.0%pub.
201832,4421,627$102,813 8.1%pub.
201735,3121,619$93,934 0.9%est. · 0.99
201634,9931,538$93,220 3.0%est. · 0.99

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in New York, quarterly, at full depth

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