New York · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in New York

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 183,400 people in New York across roughly 15,148 establishments, with average annual pay of $77,290.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in New York grew 57.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 37.3% from 2019 to 2020 and has since recovered 95.7% of that loss. 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.

  • 183,400Employment, 2025
  • 15,148Establishments
  • $77,290Avg. annual pay
  • 1.9%Share of New York jobs
  • 0.96Location 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

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 149,700 to 183,400.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 149,700; 2005 150,600; 2006 154,600; 2007 158,800; 2008 165,000; 2009 160,500; 2010 159,900; 2011 160,000; 2012 166,700; 2013 173,700; 2014 179,300; 2015 182,600; 2016 185,500; 2017 186,200; 2018 185,200; 2019 186,400; 2020 116,900; 2021 131,100; 2022 161,300; 2023 173,400; 2024 180,400; 2025 183,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025183,42415,148$77,285 1.7%est. · 1.00
2024180,42314,633$74,122 4.1%est. · 1.00
2023173,36213,697$72,022 7.5%est. · 1.00
2022161,27812,863$71,651 23.0%est. · 1.00
2021131,08012,689$70,291 12.2%est. · 1.00
2020116,86113,122$68,744 37.3%est. · 1.00
2019186,38212,959$57,605 0.6%est. · 1.00
2018185,19812,840$54,718 0.5%est. · 1.00
2017186,20912,703$53,153 0.4%est. · 1.00
2016185,50812,752$51,532 1.6%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries63,79234.8%1.72est. · 0.99
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions20,87511.4%1.28est. · 1.00
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries98,75753.8%0.72pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in New York, quarterly, at full depth

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