Ohio · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in Ohio

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 266,300 people in Ohio across roughly 26,596 establishments, with average annual pay of $84,500.

Employment in Construction in Ohio grew 18.3% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 266,300. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Ohio are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 266,300Employment, 2025
  • 26,596Establishments
  • $84,500Avg. annual pay
  • 4.8%Share of Ohio jobs
  • 0.89Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in Ohio, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 241,800 to 266,300.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 241,800; 2005 239,600; 2006 237,400; 2007 231,900; 2008 218,700; 2009 188,100; 2010 175,800; 2011 182,800; 2012 187,600; 2013 192,400; 2014 202,100; 2015 206,800; 2016 212,300; 2017 223,500; 2018 227,300; 2019 233,200; 2020 225,100; 2021 230,500; 2022 239,900; 2023 244,800; 2024 255,800; 2025 266,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025266,33226,596$84,503 4.1%pub.
2024255,84226,379$79,266 4.5%pub.
2023244,78025,891$73,773 2.1%pub.
2022239,86425,421$70,245 4.1%pub.
2021230,49924,653$66,893 2.4%est. · 1.00
2020225,05823,977$64,798 3.5%est. · 1.00
2019233,23023,732$62,115 2.6%est. · 1.00
2018227,27623,403$60,927 1.7%est. · 1.00
2017223,53923,350$60,518 5.3%est. · 1.00
2016212,34523,114$56,796 2.7%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings54,74420.5%0.83pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction40,42415.2%0.83pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors171,16564.3%0.92pub.

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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Construction in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth

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