Pennsylvania · NAICS 485 · Annual, 2025

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Pennsylvania

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 485 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485) employed about 49,200 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 1,235 establishments, with average annual pay of $46,490.

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Pennsylvania grew 23.9% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Pennsylvania as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.50). QCEW withheld part of this figure for Pennsylvania; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.98. 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.

  • 49,200Employment, 2025
  • 1,235Establishments
  • $46,490Avg. annual pay
  • 0.8%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 1.50Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.98. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 42,800 to 49,200.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 42,800; 2005 43,300; 2006 44,300; 2007 45,000; 2008 45,300; 2009 46,300; 2010 47,500; 2011 48,500; 2012 48,300; 2013 48,900; 2014 49,100; 2015 49,400; 2016 49,500; 2017 49,800; 2018 50,100; 2019 50,400; 2020 39,700; 2021 42,100; 2022 44,000; 2023 45,700; 2024 47,800; 2025 49,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202549,2311,235$46,486 2.9%est. · 0.98
202447,8321,218$45,774 4.5%est. · 0.99
202345,7491,223$45,337 3.9%est. · 0.99
202244,0171,227$42,757 4.4%est. · 0.99
202142,1461,200$40,275 6.1%est. · 0.99
202039,7291,238$39,730 21.1%est. · 0.99
201950,3551,267$36,418 0.4%est. · 0.99
201850,1411,274$35,286 0.8%est. · 0.99
201749,7521,283$34,381 0.5%est. · 0.99
201649,5271,287$33,410 0.2%est. · 0.99

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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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Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

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