South Carolina · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 262,100 people in South Carolina across roughly 9,596 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,630.

Employment in Manufacturing in South Carolina grew 7.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in South Carolina as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.39). 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.

  • 262,100Employment, 2025
  • 9,596Establishments
  • $78,630Avg. annual pay
  • 11.3%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 1.39Location 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 Manufacturing in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 267,500 to 262,100.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 267,500; 2005 262,700; 2006 253,800; 2007 249,500; 2008 242,200; 2009 213,900; 2010 207,800; 2011 215,100; 2012 220,100; 2013 224,500; 2014 230,200; 2015 235,900; 2016 238,100; 2017 240,500; 2018 249,700; 2019 258,300; 2020 244,400; 2021 249,700; 2022 261,200; 2023 263,100; 2024 263,800; 2025 262,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025262,1409,596$78,631 0.6%est. · 1.00
2024263,7789,342$75,699 0.3%est. · 1.00
2023263,1028,539$71,769 0.7%est. · 1.00
2022261,2187,822$67,494 4.6%est. · 1.00
2021249,7137,099$64,431 2.2%est. · 1.00
2020244,4276,657$61,782 5.4%est. · 1.00
2019258,2746,416$60,853 3.4%est. · 1.00
2018249,7456,089$59,526 3.9%est. · 1.00
2017240,4905,908$58,932 1.0%est. · 1.00
2016238,1335,618$57,687 1.0%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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing18,0326.9%0.68pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing2,7261.0%0.56pub.
313Textile Mills10,9314.2%9.03pub.
314Textile Product Mills3,1601.2%2.29pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing7120.3%0.61pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing950.0%0.27pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing8,8063.4%1.47pub.
322Paper Manufacturing9,9093.8%1.89pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities4,4851.7%0.87pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing7890.3%0.48pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing22,7028.7%1.71est. · 1.00
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing26,13610.0%2.51pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing7,3872.8%1.20pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing6,8002.6%1.26pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing24,1219.2%1.13pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing23,2968.9%1.44pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing8,9693.4%0.60pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing17,6156.7%2.73pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing53,44420.4%2.02pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing3,0741.2%0.62pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing8,9533.4%0.98pub.

† 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.

Notes

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Manufacturing in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in South Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.