North Dakota · NAICS 486 · Annual, 2025

Pipeline Transportation in North Dakota

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 486 in North Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Pipeline Transportation (NAICS 486) employed about 1,600 people in North Dakota across roughly 96 establishments, with average annual pay of $150,100.

Employment in Pipeline Transportation in North Dakota grew 5.2% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 10.1× as concentrated in North Dakota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 10.15). Average pay in the industry is 122.1% above the all-industries average in North Dakota. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Dakota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 1,600Employment, 2025
  • 96Establishments
  • $150,100Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of North Dakota jobs
  • 10.15Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Pipeline Transportation in North Dakota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 240 to 1,600.05001K1.5K2K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 240; 2005 240; 2006 250; 2007 250; 2008 320; 2009 340; 2010 350; 2011 400; 2012 480; 2013 650; 2014 840; 2015 900; 2016 1,000; 2017 1,250; 2018 1,270; 2019 1,410; 2020 1,490; 2021 1,450; 2022 1,490; 2023 1,510; 2024 1,520; 2025 1,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20251,59796$150,105 5.2%pub.
20241,51893$146,557 0.4%pub.
20231,51290$139,981 1.7%pub.
20221,48787$133,220 2.3%pub.
20211,45385$123,337 2.4%pub.
20201,49093$129,683 5.8%pub.
20191,40885$130,499 10.8%pub.
20181,27180$120,113 1.9%pub.
20171,24769$114,414 24.6%pub.
20161,00155$122,069 10.9%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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Pipeline Transportation in North Dakota, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for pipeline transportation in North Dakota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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