South Carolina · NAICS 322 · Annual, 2025

Paper Manufacturing in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 322 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Paper Manufacturing (NAICS 322) employed about 9,910 people in South Carolina across roughly 191 establishments, with average annual pay of $98,780.

Employment in Paper Manufacturing in South Carolina declined 10.4% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 1.9× as concentrated in South Carolina as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.89). Average pay in the industry is 54.9% above the all-industries average in South Carolina. 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.

  • 9,910Employment, 2025
  • 191Establishments
  • $98,780Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 1.89Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Paper Manufacturing in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 14,200 to 9,910.05K10K15K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 14,200; 2005 13,900; 2006 13,900; 2007 13,600; 2008 13,500; 2009 13,100; 2010 12,800; 2011 12,900; 2012 12,700; 2013 12,900; 2014 12,700; 2015 12,700; 2016 12,600; 2017 12,500; 2018 12,300; 2019 12,200; 2020 11,800; 2021 11,500; 2022 11,800; 2023 11,900; 2024 11,100; 2025 9,910.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20259,909191$98,775 10.4%pub.
202411,060197$92,147 7.0%pub.
202311,886184$91,450 0.6%pub.
202211,820175$87,194 3.2%pub.
202111,451164$86,952 3.0%pub.
202011,802155$81,671 3.3%pub.
201912,203154$80,537 1.1%pub.
201812,333147$78,008 1.2%pub.
201712,483147$76,165 0.6%pub.
201612,561140$75,511 0.8%pub.

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. 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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Paper Manufacturing in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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

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