Ohio · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Ohio

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 675,500 people in Ohio across roughly 16,499 establishments, with average annual pay of $79,290.

Employment in Manufacturing in Ohio declined 17.9% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Ohio as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.50). 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.

  • 675,500Employment, 2025
  • 16,499Establishments
  • $79,290Avg. annual pay
  • 12.2%Share of Ohio jobs
  • 1.50Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Ohio, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 823,100 to 675,500.0250K500K750K1M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 823,100; 2005 811,900; 2006 795,600; 2007 771,400; 2008 738,800; 2009 629,400; 2010 620,300; 2011 637,600; 2012 656,300; 2013 662,500; 2014 674,200; 2015 686,000; 2016 685,100; 2017 686,000; 2018 699,000; 2019 700,800; 2020 653,000; 2021 665,700; 2022 683,200; 2023 687,400; 2024 682,300; 2025 675,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025675,54416,499$79,286 1.0%pub.
2024682,25116,304$76,504 0.7%pub.
2023687,35415,944$72,567 0.6%pub.
2022683,15415,756$70,003 2.6%pub.
2021665,73315,528$66,945 1.9%pub.
2020653,03815,454$64,996 6.8%pub.
2019700,79615,487$62,879 0.3%pub.
2018698,96015,410$61,488 1.9%pub.
2017685,95215,431$60,003 0.1%pub.
2016685,09115,488$58,765 0.1%pub.

† 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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing66,0779.8%1.05pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing12,1551.8%1.04pub.
313Textile Mills1,5310.2%0.53pub.
314Textile Product Mills1,9410.3%0.59pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing1,8530.3%0.66pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing8570.1%1.02pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing13,7442.0%0.96pub.
322Paper Manufacturing21,4953.2%1.72pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities17,6362.6%1.43pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing5,3770.8%1.38pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing49,3257.3%1.55pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing53,4207.9%2.15pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing27,0264.0%1.84pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing35,0775.2%2.72pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing95,19614.1%1.87pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing74,79511.1%1.94pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing21,7913.2%0.61pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing28,9334.3%1.88pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing112,26516.6%1.78pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing13,2322.0%1.12pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing21,8183.2%1.00pub.

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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Manufacturing in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth

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

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