South Carolina · NAICS 237 · Annual, 2025

Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 237 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction (NAICS 237) employed about 19,500 people in South Carolina across roughly 1,208 establishments, with average annual pay of $84,130.

Employment in Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in South Carolina grew 5.8% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 19,500. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 19,500Employment, 2025
  • 1,208Establishments
  • $84,130Avg. annual pay
  • 0.8%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 0.96Location 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 Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 17,200 to 19,500.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 17,200; 2005 17,400; 2006 17,900; 2007 17,900; 2008 15,400; 2009 12,800; 2010 12,100; 2011 11,500; 2012 12,000; 2013 11,800; 2014 12,400; 2015 12,900; 2016 15,300; 2017 17,900; 2018 16,500; 2019 17,000; 2020 16,300; 2021 16,000; 2022 16,700; 2023 17,400; 2024 18,400; 2025 19,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202519,4521,208$84,129 5.8%est. · 1.00
202418,3801,189$77,198 5.5%pub.
202317,4271,116$72,410 4.6%pub.
202216,6651,081$68,221 4.1%pub.
202116,0151,049$64,943 1.8%pub.
202016,3171,044$60,427 4.3%pub.
201917,0461,014$58,154 3.1%pub.
201816,529976$56,128 7.6%pub.
201717,880967$60,235 17.0%pub.
201615,283936$51,804 18.0%pub.

† 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.

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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Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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