Ohio · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025

Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Ohio

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 63,700 people in Ohio worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $65,340.

Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Ohio grew 12.7% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.

  • 63,700Employment, 2025
  • $65,340Mean annual wage
  • 1.1%Share of Ohio jobs
  • 0.87Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Ohio, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 65,200 to 63,700.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 65,200; 2005 64,900; 2006 64,800; 2007 64,500; 2008 63,400; 2009 59,600; 2010 58,700; 2011 58,900; 2012 59,400; 2013 59,700; 2014 59,900; 2015 60,100; 2016 60,400; 2017 62,100; 2018 63,500; 2019 64,300; 2020 56,500; 2021 58,600; 2022 61,900; 2023 65,100; 2024 64,500; 2025 63,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
202563,701$65,343 1.3%
202464,510$62,547 0.9%
202365,093$63,090 5.1%
202261,948$62,639 5.8%
202158,577$61,117 3.6%
202056,520$56,659 12.1%
201964,274$52,452 1.2%
201863,513$50,965 2.3%
201762,090$49,370 2.8%
201660,429$47,468 0.5%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Ohio. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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