Tennessee · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Tennessee

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 218,700 people in Tennessee across roughly 6,711 establishments, with average annual pay of $71,860.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Tennessee grew 12.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.38). 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.

  • 218,700Employment, 2025
  • 6,711Establishments
  • $71,860Avg. annual pay
  • 6.7%Share of Tennessee jobs
  • 1.38Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Tennessee, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 150,200 to 218,700.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 150,200; 2005 152,000; 2006 155,500; 2007 155,900; 2008 151,300; 2009 139,200; 2010 137,200; 2011 142,000; 2012 147,500; 2013 150,900; 2014 153,900; 2015 162,100; 2016 170,200; 2017 171,300; 2018 177,300; 2019 189,600; 2020 194,600; 2021 204,900; 2022 212,800; 2023 212,300; 2024 220,900; 2025 218,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025218,6666,711$71,863 1.0%pub.
2024220,9417,375$70,834 4.1%pub.
2023212,3237,162$67,644 0.3%pub.
2022212,8456,639$67,214 3.9%pub.
2021204,8526,132$64,655 5.3%est. · 1.00
2020194,5505,694$58,983 2.6%est. · 1.00
2019189,6415,492$56,179 6.9%est. · 1.00
2018177,3485,200$56,252 3.5%est. · 1.00
2017171,3285,030$54,256 0.7%est. · 1.00
2016170,2034,961$52,607 5.0%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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation5,9032.7%0.49pub.
482Rail Transportation130.0%0.42pub.
483Water Transportation2,2731.0%1.54pub.
484Truck Transportation54,60225.0%1.77pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation7,8593.6%0.45pub.
486Pipeline Transportation5250.2%0.44pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation4010.2%0.61pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation21,3809.8%1.14pub.
491Postal Service13,6186.2%1.08pub.
492Couriers and Messengers58,96127.0%2.51pub.
493Warehousing and Storage53,13024.3%1.33pub.

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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Transportation and Warehousing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth

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