North Carolina · NAICS 493 · Annual, 2025

Warehousing and Storage in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 493 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Warehousing and Storage (NAICS 493) employed about 54,700 people in North Carolina across roughly 619 establishments, with average annual pay of $52,330.

Employment in Warehousing and Storage in North Carolina grew 15.2% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 54,700Employment, 2025
  • 619Establishments
  • $52,330Avg. annual pay
  • 1.1%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.90Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Warehousing and Storage in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 18,700 to 54,700.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 18,700; 2005 18,500; 2006 19,000; 2007 19,700; 2008 17,900; 2009 17,400; 2010 17,400; 2011 18,600; 2012 20,600; 2013 20,700; 2014 20,700; 2015 23,400; 2016 24,900; 2017 28,500; 2018 30,000; 2019 33,400; 2020 47,500; 2021 56,700; 2022 55,700; 2023 52,700; 2024 54,400; 2025 54,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202554,659619$52,331 0.5%pub.
202454,372602$50,643 3.2%pub.
202352,692610$46,701 5.4%pub.
202255,691577$44,039 1.8%pub.
202156,681567$40,965 19.4%pub.
202047,456557$40,080 42.1%pub.
201933,403531$42,220 11.5%pub.
201829,952524$42,120 5.3%pub.
201728,452513$39,849 14.3%pub.
201624,883505$40,504 6.3%pub.

† 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.

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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Warehousing and Storage in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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