Rhode Island · NAICS 516 · Annual, 2025
Broadcasting and Content Providers in Rhode Island
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 516 in Rhode Island, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Broadcasting and Content Providers (NAICS 516) employed about 620 people in Rhode Island across roughly 112 establishments, with average annual pay of $113,540.
Employment in Broadcasting and Content Providers in Rhode Island declined 5.8% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Rhode Island than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.57). Average pay in the industry is 59.6% above the all-industries average in Rhode Island. 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.
- 620Employment, 2025
- 112Establishments
- $113,540Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of Rhode Island jobs
- 0.57Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 970; 2005 930; 2006 910; 2007 820; 2008 820; 2009 720; 2010 690; 2011 720; 2012 710; 2013 700; 2014 660; 2015 680; 2016 680; 2017 660; 2018 640; 2019 650; 2020 620; 2021 630; 2022 640; 2023 660; 2024 660; 2025 620.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 623 | 112 | $113,543 | 5.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 661 | 114 | $103,809 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 659 | 102 | $89,349 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 641 | 84 | $79,984 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 634 | 83 | $74,744 | 2.1% | est. · 0.44 |
| 2020 | 621 | 66 | $64,639 | 3.9% | est. · 0.42 |
| 2019 | 646 | 59 | $62,070 | 0.9% | est. · 0.43 |
| 2018 | 640 | 59 | $61,957 | 3.5% | est. · 0.44 |
| 2017 | 663 | 62 | $60,609 | 1.8% | est. · 0.46 |
| 2016 | 676 | 59 | $57,856 | 0.4% | est. · 0.46 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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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Broadcasting and Content Providers in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth
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