Tennessee · NAICS 624 · Annual, 2025
Social Assistance in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 624 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Social Assistance (NAICS 624) employed about 59,600 people in Tennessee across roughly 6,726 establishments, with average annual pay of $36,250.
Employment in Social Assistance in Tennessee grew 12.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Tennessee than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.55). Average pay in the industry is 48.5% below the all-industries average in Tennessee. 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.
- 59,600Employment, 2025
- 6,726Establishments
- $36,250Avg. annual pay
- 1.8%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.55Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 35,200; 2005 37,000; 2006 38,600; 2007 40,000; 2008 41,000; 2009 41,600; 2010 42,500; 2011 44,100; 2012 46,800; 2013 47,700; 2014 48,100; 2015 48,600; 2016 48,900; 2017 49,400; 2018 49,400; 2019 51,200; 2020 53,100; 2021 52,500; 2022 53,400; 2023 56,900; 2024 59,400; 2025 59,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59,610 | 6,726 | $36,251 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 59,356 | 8,122 | $35,008 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 56,913 | 7,767 | $33,681 | 6.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 53,352 | 7,452 | $31,858 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 52,494 | 7,291 | $28,560 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 53,063 | 6,945 | $26,922 | 3.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 51,196 | 2,629 | $25,028 | 3.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 49,377 | 2,559 | $23,933 | 0.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 49,360 | 2,550 | $23,252 | 0.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 48,925 | 2,525 | $22,693 | 0.6% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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
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Social Assistance in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for social assistance 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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