New York · NAICS 92 · Annual, 2025

Public Administration in New York

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 92 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Public Administration (NAICS 92) employed about 523,300 people in New York across roughly 7,023 establishments, with average annual pay of $106,570.

Employment in Public Administration in New York was essentially flat from 2004 to 2025 (+1.8%). 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.

  • 523,300Employment, 2025
  • 7,023Establishments
  • $106,570Avg. annual pay
  • 5.3%Share of New York jobs
  • 1.06Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Public Administration in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 514,200 to 523,300.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 514,200; 2005 515,800; 2006 512,100; 2007 517,200; 2008 521,000; 2009 522,600; 2010 524,500; 2011 502,400; 2012 494,300; 2013 492,000; 2014 484,000; 2015 483,000; 2016 484,300; 2017 488,700; 2018 537,900; 2019 539,200; 2020 528,800; 2021 514,600; 2022 505,500; 2023 508,000; 2024 517,000; 2025 523,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025523,2947,023$106,567 1.2%pub.
2024517,0237,356$102,857 1.8%pub.
2023507,9857,445$96,559 0.5%pub.
2022505,4807,581$91,491 1.8%pub.
2021514,5647,643$86,235 2.7%pub.
2020528,7637,587$78,336 1.9%pub.
2019539,1907,536$75,822 0.2%pub.
2018537,9027,393$74,545 10.1%pub.
2017488,6595,967$66,438 0.9%pub.
2016484,2585,650$65,127 0.3%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 8 shown

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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Public Administration in New York, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for public administration in New York. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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