Texas · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 760 people in Texas across roughly 114 establishments, with average annual pay of $32,860.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Texas declined 9.8% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Texas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.27). Average pay in the industry is 57.9% below the all-industries average in Texas. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 760Employment, 2025
  • 114Establishments
  • $32,860Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.27Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 650 to 760.05001K1.5K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 650; 2005 710; 2006 690; 2007 720; 2008 670; 2009 760; 2010 790; 2011 820; 2012 840; 2013 830; 2014 830; 2015 860; 2016 900; 2017 1,000; 2018 940; 2019 950; 2020 720; 2021 840; 2022 1,010; 2023 940; 2024 850; 2025 760.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025765114$32,860 9.8%pub.
2024848123$31,479 9.8%pub.
2023939122$30,197 6.7%pub.
20221,007122$27,267 19.3%pub.
2021844115$26,099 18.0%pub.
2020715110$23,551 24.8%pub.
2019950107$23,349 1.0%pub.
2018941109$22,462 5.7%pub.
2017998113$20,977 10.8%pub.
2016901106$21,347 4.3%pub.

† 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

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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

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