North Carolina · NAICS 325 · Annual, 2025
Chemical Manufacturing in North Carolina
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 325 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) employed about 47,800 people in North Carolina across roughly 661 establishments, with average annual pay of $113,370.
Employment in Chemical Manufacturing in North Carolina grew 12.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.7× as concentrated in North Carolina as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.69). Average pay in the industry is 58.5% above the all-industries average in North Carolina. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 47,800Employment, 2025
- 661Establishments
- $113,370Avg. annual pay
- 1.0%Share of North Carolina jobs
- 1.69Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 45,700; 2005 44,300; 2006 41,800; 2007 41,200; 2008 41,400; 2009 41,600; 2010 41,200; 2011 41,700; 2012 41,900; 2013 42,300; 2014 42,400; 2015 42,400; 2016 41,300; 2017 41,300; 2018 41,900; 2019 42,200; 2020 42,400; 2021 43,200; 2022 45,200; 2023 46,600; 2024 46,500; 2025 47,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47,758 | 661 | $113,367 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 46,476 | 630 | $109,351 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 46,608 | 617 | $104,749 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 45,232 | 576 | $99,728 | 4.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 43,169 | 551 | $94,255 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 42,438 | 560 | $94,214 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 42,240 | 551 | $88,827 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 41,898 | 540 | $85,234 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 41,258 | 568 | $85,999 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 41,278 | 570 | $84,188 | 2.8% | pub. |
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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Chemical Manufacturing in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for chemical manufacturing in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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