North Carolina · NAICS 55 · Annual, 2025

Management of Companies and Enterprises in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 55 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Management of Companies and Enterprises (NAICS 55) employed about 83,900 people in North Carolina across roughly 2,550 establishments, with average annual pay of $146,480.

Employment in Management of Companies and Enterprises in North Carolina grew 31.6% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 104.8% 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.

  • 83,900Employment, 2025
  • 2,550Establishments
  • $146,480Avg. annual pay
  • 1.7%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.02Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Management of Companies and Enterprises in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 63,800 to 83,900.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 63,800; 2005 63,400; 2006 68,900; 2007 71,100; 2008 75,300; 2009 72,900; 2010 73,200; 2011 77,300; 2012 80,500; 2013 77,800; 2014 80,400; 2015 81,900; 2016 83,900; 2017 82,900; 2018 83,900; 2019 84,900; 2020 82,600; 2021 76,800; 2022 83,300; 2023 86,200; 2024 83,900; 2025 83,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202583,8962,550$146,484 0.0%pub.
202483,9082,292$144,003 2.7%pub.
202386,2132,055$137,771 3.5%pub.
202283,3021,927$136,745 8.5%pub.
202176,7881,830$127,075 7.0%pub.
202082,5931,834$119,113 2.7%pub.
201984,8521,815$113,128 1.2%pub.
201883,8571,790$108,568 1.2%pub.
201782,8541,719$108,032 1.2%pub.
201683,8821,674$103,578 2.4%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.

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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Management of Companies and Enterprises in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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