Pennsylvania · NAICS 331 · Annual, 2025
Primary Metal Manufacturing in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 331 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Primary Metal Manufacturing (NAICS 331) employed about 33,400 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 390 establishments, with average annual pay of $98,160.
Employment in Primary Metal Manufacturing in Pennsylvania declined 22.6% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 2.4× as concentrated in Pennsylvania as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.37). 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.
- 33,400Employment, 2025
- 390Establishments
- $98,160Avg. annual pay
- 0.5%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 2.37Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 43,100; 2005 42,800; 2006 43,400; 2007 43,000; 2008 41,600; 2009 35,700; 2010 36,000; 2011 38,500; 2012 39,500; 2013 39,500; 2014 38,900; 2015 37,600; 2016 35,400; 2017 34,900; 2018 35,800; 2019 35,900; 2020 32,000; 2021 31,000; 2022 33,200; 2023 34,000; 2024 33,900; 2025 33,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 33,413 | 390 | $98,156 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 33,900 | 388 | $91,736 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 34,025 | 389 | $87,859 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 33,206 | 394 | $84,358 | 7.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 30,978 | 396 | $79,891 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 32,023 | 395 | $72,073 | 10.8% | pub. |
| 2019 | 35,898 | 401 | $73,148 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 35,755 | 400 | $73,535 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 34,938 | 406 | $69,435 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 35,409 | 403 | $65,416 | 5.8% | 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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Primary Metal Manufacturing in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for primary metal manufacturing in Pennsylvania. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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