New York · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in New York
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 199,900 people in New York worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $130,350.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in New York grew 6.8% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is 1.5× as concentrated in New York as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.54). Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 199,900Employment, 2025
- $130,350Mean annual wage
- 2.0%Share of New York jobs
- 1.54Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 181,100; 2005 184,000; 2006 186,300; 2007 189,500; 2008 192,100; 2009 182,400; 2010 185,100; 2011 189,400; 2012 193,700; 2013 197,100; 2014 198,100; 2015 202,000; 2016 201,900; 2017 201,900; 2018 207,000; 2019 213,600; 2020 187,200; 2021 196,200; 2022 208,300; 2023 203,000; 2024 202,400; 2025 199,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 199,934 | $130,346 | 1.2% |
| 2024 | 202,369 | $125,249 | 0.3% |
| 2023 | 203,003 | $117,450 | 2.5% |
| 2022 | 208,253 | $113,223 | 6.1% |
| 2021 | 196,202 | $115,021 | 4.8% |
| 2020 | 187,168 | $106,357 | 12.4% |
| 2019 | 213,595 | $95,130 | 3.2% |
| 2018 | 207,010 | $94,351 | 2.5% |
| 2017 | 201,907 | $90,389 | 0.0% |
| 2016 | 201,891 | $88,987 | 0.0% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in New York, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in New York. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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