Pennsylvania · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025

Production occupations in Pennsylvania

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 363,600 people in Pennsylvania worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $58,510.

Employment in production occupations in Pennsylvania declined 18.4% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.

  • 363,600Employment, 2025
  • $58,510Mean annual wage
  • 6.0%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 1.08Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in production occupations in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 445,300 to 363,600.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 445,300; 2005 436,700; 2006 431,700; 2007 425,700; 2008 417,200; 2009 375,300; 2010 369,400; 2011 375,100; 2012 377,100; 2013 375,700; 2014 378,200; 2015 380,000; 2016 375,100; 2017 371,000; 2018 375,000; 2019 379,100; 2020 353,900; 2021 357,900; 2022 369,300; 2023 368,000; 2024 366,600; 2025 363,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025363,568$58,510 0.8%
2024366,645$56,094 0.4%
2023367,988$54,194 0.4%
2022369,332$52,467 3.2%
2021357,890$50,230 1.1%
2020353,923$48,063 6.7%
2019379,118$45,347 1.1%
2018374,968$44,168 1.1%
2017370,963$43,233 1.1%
2016375,142$42,351 1.3%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Production occupations in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for production occupations in Pennsylvania. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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