Pennsylvania · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Pennsylvania

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 350,900 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 13,133 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,460.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Pennsylvania grew 13.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 350,900. 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.

  • 350,900Employment, 2025
  • 13,133Establishments
  • $63,460Avg. annual pay
  • 5.8%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 1.19Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 245,800 to 350,900.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 245,800; 2005 249,300; 2006 257,000; 2007 263,000; 2008 261,400; 2009 250,900; 2010 249,600; 2011 255,100; 2012 256,800; 2013 259,100; 2014 265,300; 2015 277,000; 2016 288,100; 2017 296,300; 2018 305,000; 2019 315,200; 2020 309,500; 2021 325,700; 2022 344,400; 2023 345,500; 2024 348,400; 2025 350,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025350,86713,133$63,464 0.7%est. · 1.00
2024348,44913,063$61,477 0.9%est. · 1.00
2023345,51713,212$59,244 0.3%est. · 1.00
2022344,38813,155$56,879 5.7%est. · 1.00
2021325,68312,335$54,663 5.2%pub.
2020309,47511,845$52,558 1.8%pub.
2019315,20011,645$50,189 3.4%pub.
2018304,97811,230$49,372 2.9%pub.
2017296,32710,965$48,050 2.9%pub.
2016288,05710,912$46,761 4.0%pub.

† 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 · 10 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation13,5283.9%0.61pub.
483Water Transportation8530.2%0.31pub.
484Truck Transportation65,17018.6%1.13pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation49,23114.0%1.50est. · 0.98
486Pipeline Transportation2,2840.7%1.03pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation6680.2%0.55est. · 1.00
488Support Activities for Transportation24,0266.9%0.69est. · 0.93
491Postal Service27,4917.8%1.17pub.
492Couriers and Messengers43,95612.5%1.01pub.
493Warehousing and Storage123,66135.2%1.66est. · 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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Transportation and Warehousing in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

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