Pennsylvania · NAICS 513 · Annual, 2025

Publishing Industries in Pennsylvania

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 513 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Publishing Industries (NAICS 513) employed about 29,900 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 4,561 establishments, with average annual pay of $162,430.

Employment in Publishing Industries in Pennsylvania grew 13.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 118.6% 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.

  • 29,900Employment, 2025
  • 4,561Establishments
  • $162,430Avg. annual pay
  • 0.5%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 0.86Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Publishing Industries in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 36,500 to 29,900.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 36,500; 2005 35,700; 2006 35,700; 2007 35,500; 2008 34,900; 2009 32,400; 2010 31,100; 2011 30,600; 2012 29,000; 2013 28,000; 2014 26,100; 2015 25,500; 2016 24,900; 2017 24,000; 2018 25,700; 2019 26,000; 2020 26,400; 2021 27,200; 2022 29,500; 2023 30,300; 2024 29,600; 2025 29,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202529,9324,561$162,431 1.2%pub.
202429,5654,197$150,865 2.3%pub.
202330,2683,975$143,190 2.5%pub.
202229,5433,611$132,778 8.5%pub.
202127,2322,652$133,016 3.4%pub.
202026,3512,111$118,480 1.3%pub.
201926,0011,837$102,448 1.1%pub.
201825,7271,591$95,994 7.0%pub.
201724,0451,431$82,768 3.5%pub.
201624,9271,337$76,931 2.2%est. · 0.69

† 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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Publishing Industries in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for publishing industries 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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