Ohio · NAICS 491 · Annual, 2025
Postal Service in Ohio
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 491 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Postal Service (NAICS 491) employed about 22,300 people in Ohio across roughly 1,065 establishments, with average annual pay of $71,980.
Employment in Postal Service in Ohio declined 29.5% from 2004 to 2025. 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.
- 22,300Employment, 2025
- 1,065Establishments
- $71,980Avg. annual pay
- 0.4%Share of Ohio jobs
- 1.04Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 31,600; 2005 30,800; 2006 30,100; 2007 29,900; 2008 29,400; 2009 27,700; 2010 25,800; 2011 24,500; 2012 23,700; 2013 22,800; 2014 22,700; 2015 22,600; 2016 22,900; 2017 23,200; 2018 23,200; 2019 23,200; 2020 22,600; 2021 22,500; 2022 22,500; 2023 22,800; 2024 22,800; 2025 22,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22,274 | 1,065 | $71,979 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 22,846 | 1,073 | $68,627 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 22,785 | 1,080 | $68,267 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 22,455 | 1,075 | $68,503 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 22,530 | 1,067 | $66,268 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2020 | 22,618 | 1,064 | $62,424 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 23,231 | 1,064 | $60,122 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 23,156 | 1,044 | $60,527 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2017 | 23,163 | 1,046 | $58,045 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 22,884 | 1,047 | $58,537 | 1.1% | pub. |
† 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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Postal Service in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for postal service 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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