North Carolina · NAICS 62 · Annual, 2025

Health Care and Social Assistance in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 62 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Health Care and Social Assistance (NAICS 62) employed about 724,300 people in North Carolina across roughly 37,430 establishments, with average annual pay of $68,710.

Employment in Health Care and Social Assistance in North Carolina grew 17.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 724,300. 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.

  • 724,300Employment, 2025
  • 37,430Establishments
  • $68,710Avg. annual pay
  • 14.7%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.91Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Health Care and Social Assistance in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 470,400 to 724,300.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 470,400; 2005 488,800; 2006 508,500; 2007 534,000; 2008 545,500; 2009 553,100; 2010 550,800; 2011 554,700; 2012 564,900; 2013 575,900; 2014 579,500; 2015 589,700; 2016 602,400; 2017 608,000; 2018 618,900; 2019 633,100; 2020 616,900; 2021 627,900; 2022 636,300; 2023 665,300; 2024 697,300; 2025 724,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025724,32537,430$68,711 3.9%pub.
2024697,34735,919$67,400 4.8%pub.
2023665,30834,262$64,408 4.6%pub.
2022636,29832,158$62,696 1.4%pub.
2021627,85128,710$59,007 1.8%pub.
2020616,88426,284$55,602 2.6%pub.
2019633,08525,143$52,460 2.3%pub.
2018618,94524,355$50,706 1.8%pub.
2017608,04624,186$49,363 0.9%pub.
2016602,40023,952$47,997 2.1%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 4 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of health care and social assistanceLQSource
621Ambulatory Health Care Services262,58436.3%0.90pub.
622Hospitals259,68435.9%1.15pub.
623Nursing and Residential Care Facilities99,05913.7%0.87pub.
624Social Assistance102,99714.2%0.62pub.

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.

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Health Care and Social Assistance in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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