New York · NAICS 492 · Annual, 2025
Couriers and Messengers in New York
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 492 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492) employed about 56,700 people in New York across roughly 1,574 establishments, with average annual pay of $60,240.
Employment in Couriers and Messengers in New York grew 12.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.7% below the all-industries average in New York. 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.
- 56,700Employment, 2025
- 1,574Establishments
- $60,240Avg. annual pay
- 0.6%Share of New York jobs
- 0.80Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 38,200; 2005 37,300; 2006 37,900; 2007 37,600; 2008 37,600; 2009 33,900; 2010 32,000; 2011 32,200; 2012 32,400; 2013 32,800; 2014 33,900; 2015 35,300; 2016 36,600; 2017 38,200; 2018 40,400; 2019 42,900; 2020 50,300; 2021 57,400; 2022 58,600; 2023 55,300; 2024 55,600; 2025 56,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56,656 | 1,574 | $60,236 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 55,624 | 1,591 | $50,612 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 55,300 | 1,590 | $49,905 | 5.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 58,573 | 1,521 | $47,438 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 57,359 | 1,478 | $46,541 | 14.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 50,273 | 1,413 | $46,325 | 17.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 42,934 | 1,342 | $46,009 | 6.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 40,356 | 1,354 | $44,872 | 5.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 38,239 | 1,359 | $44,365 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 36,551 | 1,343 | $43,769 | 3.5% | 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.
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Couriers and Messengers in New York, quarterly, at full depth
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