Ohio · NAICS 238 · Annual, 2025
Specialty Trade Contractors in Ohio
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 238 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238) employed about 171,200 people in Ohio across roughly 17,283 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,390.
Employment in Specialty Trade Contractors in Ohio grew 5.7% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 171,200. 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.
- 171,200Employment, 2025
- 17,283Establishments
- $80,390Avg. annual pay
- 3.1%Share of Ohio jobs
- 0.92Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 154,400; 2005 152,100; 2006 150,800; 2007 147,800; 2008 138,500; 2009 117,500; 2010 110,400; 2011 115,000; 2012 118,700; 2013 118,900; 2014 124,900; 2015 129,200; 2016 134,000; 2017 137,600; 2018 141,000; 2019 145,400; 2020 141,600; 2021 145,800; 2022 151,300; 2023 154,400; 2024 161,900; 2025 171,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 171,165 | 17,283 | $80,393 | 5.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 161,886 | 17,092 | $74,943 | 4.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 154,442 | 16,716 | $69,522 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2022 | 151,342 | 16,365 | $65,849 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 145,833 | 15,833 | $62,821 | 3.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 141,644 | 15,481 | $60,575 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 145,361 | 15,346 | $57,636 | 3.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 140,969 | 15,169 | $56,088 | 2.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 137,611 | 15,205 | $54,612 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 133,978 | 15,085 | $53,163 | 3.7% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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Specialty Trade Contractors in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth
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