Tennessee · NAICS 322 · Annual, 2025
Paper Manufacturing in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 322 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Paper Manufacturing (NAICS 322) employed about 12,800 people in Tennessee across roughly 221 establishments, with average annual pay of $90,520.
Employment in Paper Manufacturing in Tennessee declined 31.7% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.7× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.75). Employment fell 36.6% from 2005 to 2018 and has since recovered 12.3% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 12,800Employment, 2025
- 221Establishments
- $90,520Avg. annual pay
- 0.4%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.75Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 18,800; 2005 18,900; 2006 18,400; 2007 17,400; 2008 17,200; 2009 16,200; 2010 15,800; 2011 15,300; 2012 14,700; 2013 14,700; 2014 14,600; 2015 14,600; 2016 14,500; 2017 14,600; 2018 12,000; 2019 12,600; 2020 12,500; 2021 12,300; 2022 13,300; 2023 13,000; 2024 12,700; 2025 12,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12,828 | 221 | $90,519 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 12,716 | 221 | $85,036 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 13,031 | 220 | $83,449 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 13,326 | 212 | $80,440 | 8.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 12,273 | 209 | $76,890 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 12,459 | 202 | $70,093 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2019 | 12,553 | 190 | $68,139 | 4.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 11,976 | 174 | $66,916 | 17.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 14,568 | 174 | $83,631 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 14,518 | 169 | $81,014 | 0.5% | 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.
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Paper Manufacturing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for paper manufacturing in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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