Pennsylvania · NAICS 22 · Annual, 2025
Utilities in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 22 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Utilities (NAICS 22) employed about 34,500 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 1,425 establishments, with average annual pay of $126,110.
Employment in Utilities in Pennsylvania declined 10.5% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 69.7% above the all-industries average in Pennsylvania. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Pennsylvania are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 34,500Employment, 2025
- 1,425Establishments
- $126,110Avg. annual pay
- 0.6%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 1.01Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 38,600; 2005 33,700; 2006 31,700; 2007 31,800; 2008 32,000; 2009 32,000; 2010 31,900; 2011 32,500; 2012 32,600; 2013 32,500; 2014 32,100; 2015 35,200; 2016 35,200; 2017 35,000; 2018 35,000; 2019 34,600; 2020 34,000; 2021 33,700; 2022 33,500; 2023 34,100; 2024 34,300; 2025 34,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34,496 | 1,425 | $126,112 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 34,275 | 1,417 | $117,911 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 34,054 | 1,425 | $110,839 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 33,477 | 1,431 | $106,983 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 33,683 | 1,407 | $104,950 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 34,021 | 1,393 | $102,132 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 34,608 | 1,367 | $99,248 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 34,980 | 1,392 | $100,610 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 34,950 | 1,361 | $96,284 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 35,193 | 1,345 | $93,685 | 0.1% | pub. |
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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Utilities in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
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