North Carolina · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in North Carolina
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 59,200 people in North Carolina worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $76,470.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in North Carolina grew 42.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 59,200. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 59,200Employment, 2025
- $76,470Mean annual wage
- 1.2%Share of North Carolina jobs
- 0.90Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 37,800; 2005 38,300; 2006 39,700; 2007 40,700; 2008 40,800; 2009 38,300; 2010 38,100; 2011 37,000; 2012 37,700; 2013 38,300; 2014 39,100; 2015 40,100; 2016 40,900; 2017 41,300; 2018 42,300; 2019 44,000; 2020 41,500; 2021 45,700; 2022 50,300; 2023 55,200; 2024 58,700; 2025 59,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59,194 | $76,466 | 0.8% |
| 2024 | 58,726 | $72,234 | 6.5% |
| 2023 | 55,157 | $71,218 | 9.6% |
| 2022 | 50,305 | $69,589 | 10.0% |
| 2021 | 45,746 | $68,044 | 10.4% |
| 2020 | 41,452 | $63,078 | 5.9% |
| 2019 | 44,025 | $58,755 | 4.2% |
| 2018 | 42,265 | $57,207 | 2.4% |
| 2017 | 41,261 | $56,338 | 1.0% |
| 2016 | 40,866 | $54,787 | 2.0% |
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 North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in North Carolina. 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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