Rhode Island · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Rhode Island

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 18,300 people in Rhode Island across roughly 1,015 establishments, with average annual pay of $60,170.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Rhode Island grew 22.0% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 18,300. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Rhode Island are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 18,300Employment, 2025
  • 1,015Establishments
  • $60,170Avg. annual pay
  • 3.7%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 0.75Location 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 Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 13,200 to 18,300.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,200; 2005 13,100; 2006 13,300; 2007 13,500; 2008 13,300; 2009 12,700; 2010 12,400; 2011 12,600; 2012 12,700; 2013 12,700; 2014 12,900; 2015 13,200; 2016 13,400; 2017 13,600; 2018 13,900; 2019 14,300; 2020 14,100; 2021 14,900; 2022 15,100; 2023 14,800; 2024 15,000; 2025 18,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202518,3371,015$60,167 22.0%est. · 1.00
202415,0321,046$59,020 1.5%est. · 1.00
202314,8061,086$57,062 1.8%est. · 1.00
202215,0741,058$54,930 1.3%est. · 1.00
202114,8781,005$51,297 5.6%est. · 1.00
202014,084940$50,426 1.4%est. · 1.00
201914,288924$48,319 2.9%est. · 1.00
201813,885885$48,219 2.0%est. · 1.00
201713,611860$46,320 1.7%est. · 1.00
201613,381845$46,489 1.2%est. · 1.00

† 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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation5162.8%0.28pub.
482Rail Transportation30.0%0.67est. · 0.85
483Water Transportation1911.0%0.84pub.
484Truck Transportation2,09111.4%0.44pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation3,85321.0%1.43est. · 0.98
486Pipeline Transportation320.2%0.17est. · 0.85
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation1590.9%1.59pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation1,5088.2%0.52est. · 0.97
491Postal Service2,45113.4%1.27pub.
492Couriers and Messengers2,38013.0%0.66pub.
493Warehousing and Storage5,15228.1%0.84pub.

† 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 Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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