New York · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in New York
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 179,800 people in New York across roughly 34,112 establishments, with average annual pay of $95,090.
Employment in Real Estate in New York grew 7.3% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in New York as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.54). 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.
- 179,800Employment, 2025
- 34,112Establishments
- $95,090Avg. annual pay
- 1.8%Share of New York jobs
- 1.54Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 167,500; 2005 169,200; 2006 170,000; 2007 172,700; 2008 173,900; 2009 169,200; 2010 167,300; 2011 167,900; 2012 169,900; 2013 171,900; 2014 174,600; 2015 179,200; 2016 181,700; 2017 186,000; 2018 181,200; 2019 182,000; 2020 173,900; 2021 172,700; 2022 178,800; 2023 180,500; 2024 181,100; 2025 179,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 179,759 | 34,112 | $95,093 | 0.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 181,072 | 33,912 | $91,304 | 0.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 180,545 | 33,502 | $88,144 | 1.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 178,830 | 32,611 | $88,113 | 3.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 172,749 | 32,149 | $85,348 | 0.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 173,894 | 32,802 | $81,827 | 4.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 181,978 | 32,467 | $77,065 | 0.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 181,164 | 32,538 | $75,013 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 185,976 | 32,642 | $72,762 | 2.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 181,685 | 31,990 | $70,735 | 1.4% | est. · 1.00 |
† 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.
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Real Estate in New York, quarterly, at full depth
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