Pennsylvania · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 107,300 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 6,184 establishments, with average annual pay of $46,840.
Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Pennsylvania grew 54.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 37.0% below the all-industries average in Pennsylvania. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 107,300. 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.
- 107,300Employment, 2025
- 6,184Establishments
- $46,840Avg. annual pay
- 1.8%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 0.91Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 80,400; 2005 82,500; 2006 84,400; 2007 86,800; 2008 89,700; 2009 89,400; 2010 91,700; 2011 94,800; 2012 96,200; 2013 94,300; 2014 94,000; 2015 95,000; 2016 97,300; 2017 99,600; 2018 100,500; 2019 103,200; 2020 69,600; 2021 82,900; 2022 96,500; 2023 102,300; 2024 106,300; 2025 107,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107,284 | 6,184 | $46,842 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 106,263 | 6,058 | $44,444 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 102,278 | 5,952 | $43,048 | 6.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 96,469 | 5,831 | $41,986 | 16.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 82,909 | 5,454 | $39,458 | 19.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 69,562 | 5,437 | $40,114 | 32.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 103,177 | 5,434 | $34,328 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 100,476 | 5,234 | $32,709 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 99,598 | 5,109 | $31,564 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 97,327 | 4,995 | $32,260 | 2.5% | 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 · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of arts, entertainment, and recreation | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 711 | Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries | 21,471 | 20.0% | 0.94 | est. · 0.99 |
| 712 | Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions | 9,142 | 8.5% | 0.91 | est. · 1.00 |
| 713 | Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries | 76,672 | 71.5% | 0.90 | pub. |
† 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.
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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation 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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