Oklahoma · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025
Construction in Oklahoma
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Oklahoma, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 94,400 people in Oklahoma across roughly 11,427 establishments, with average annual pay of $69,350.
Employment in Construction in Oklahoma grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 94,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Oklahoma are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 94,400Employment, 2025
- 11,427Establishments
- $69,350Avg. annual pay
- 5.5%Share of Oklahoma jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 67,700; 2005 71,200; 2006 75,400; 2007 76,600; 2008 80,500; 2009 74,000; 2010 72,300; 2011 73,000; 2012 74,900; 2013 79,100; 2014 79,800; 2015 81,900; 2016 81,900; 2017 81,700; 2018 84,700; 2019 87,300; 2020 83,100; 2021 82,800; 2022 84,100; 2023 87,100; 2024 90,400; 2025 94,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 94,389 | 11,427 | $69,350 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 90,395 | 11,323 | $65,461 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 87,096 | 11,150 | $62,246 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 84,113 | 10,734 | $58,585 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 82,808 | 10,250 | $55,812 | 0.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 83,138 | 10,007 | $54,287 | 4.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 87,250 | 9,953 | $53,627 | 3.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 84,680 | 9,917 | $51,983 | 3.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 81,672 | 9,975 | $49,840 | 0.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 81,883 | 9,861 | $48,917 | 0.0% | 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of construction | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | Construction of Buildings | 16,114 | 17.1% | 0.79 | est. · 1.00 |
| 237 | Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | 23,509 | 24.9% | 1.58 | pub. |
| 238 | Specialty Trade Contractors | 54,766 | 58.0% | 0.96 | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Construction in Oklahoma, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction in Oklahoma. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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