New York · NAICS 523 · Annual, 2025

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in New York

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 523 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (NAICS 523) employed about 223,600 people in New York across roughly 10,929 establishments, with average annual pay of $534,900.

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in New York grew 13.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 3.2× as concentrated in New York as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 3.22). Average pay in the industry is 435.2% above 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.

  • 223,600Employment, 2025
  • 10,929Establishments
  • $534,900Avg. annual pay
  • 2.3%Share of New York jobs
  • 3.22Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 180,300 to 223,600.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 180,300; 2005 188,200; 2006 198,000; 2007 206,300; 2008 206,600; 2009 186,500; 2010 182,800; 2011 189,000; 2012 185,800; 2013 185,100; 2014 187,800; 2015 192,100; 2016 194,700; 2017 194,600; 2018 199,100; 2019 199,300; 2020 196,800; 2021 197,400; 2022 207,500; 2023 214,900; 2024 217,800; 2025 223,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025223,61610,929$534,898 2.7%pub.
2024217,75110,518$484,297 1.3%pub.
2023214,94810,375$449,178 3.6%pub.
2022207,4839,914$473,745 5.1%pub.
2021197,3959,595$495,367 0.3%pub.
2020196,7669,766$423,586 1.3%pub.
2019199,3079,528$390,018 0.1%pub.
2018199,0829,693$382,516 2.3%pub.
2017194,6109,781$403,094 0.0%pub.
2016194,6879,545$359,106 1.4%pub.

† 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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Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in New York, quarterly, at full depth

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