Pennsylvania · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Pennsylvania

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

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 557,700 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 14,654 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,770.

Employment in Manufacturing in Pennsylvania declined 19.5% from 2004 to 2025. 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.

  • 557,700Employment, 2025
  • 14,654Establishments
  • $80,770Avg. annual pay
  • 9.2%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 1.14Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 692,400 to 557,700.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 692,400; 2005 682,800; 2006 672,900; 2007 659,400; 2008 645,300; 2009 575,700; 2010 561,100; 2011 565,400; 2012 567,600; 2013 564,200; 2014 567,800; 2015 568,100; 2016 559,300; 2017 562,400; 2018 570,500; 2019 575,500; 2020 538,200; 2021 544,300; 2022 564,400; 2023 566,900; 2024 563,800; 2025 557,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025557,73114,654$80,773 1.1%pub.
2024563,76714,588$77,222 0.5%pub.
2023566,90114,549$74,597 0.4%pub.
2022564,39214,535$72,173 3.7%pub.
2021544,32414,333$69,382 1.1%pub.
2020538,15514,366$66,954 6.5%pub.
2019575,46714,435$64,250 0.9%pub.
2018570,47114,410$62,584 1.4%pub.
2017562,43514,417$61,131 0.6%pub.
2016559,31814,418$59,809 1.6%pub.

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 Manufacturing82,53314.8%1.20pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing13,4292.4%1.05pub.
313Textile Mills2,8150.5%0.89pub.
314Textile Product Mills2,5540.5%0.71pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing3,1870.6%1.04pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing6490.1%0.70pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing21,7873.9%1.39pub.
322Paper Manufacturing21,3613.8%1.56pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities16,9833.0%1.26pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing4,9630.9%1.17pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing42,9407.7%1.24pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing39,3477.0%1.45pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing19,1823.4%1.19pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing33,4136.0%2.37pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing78,48014.1%1.41pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing43,9777.9%1.04pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing27,8395.0%0.72pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing25,8004.6%1.53pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing36,3086.5%0.53pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing14,1612.5%1.09pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing26,0244.7%1.09pub.

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 Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

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

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.