Texas · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Texas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 197,500 people in Texas across roughly 11,301 establishments, with average annual pay of $46,430.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Texas grew 44.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Texas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.72). Average pay in the industry is 40.5% 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.

  • 197,500Employment, 2025
  • 11,301Establishments
  • $46,430Avg. annual pay
  • 1.4%Share of Texas jobs
  • 0.72Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 120,800 to 197,500.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 120,800; 2005 121,400; 2006 124,100; 2007 127,000; 2008 129,700; 2009 131,200; 2010 131,600; 2011 131,400; 2012 132,900; 2013 138,700; 2014 146,300; 2015 152,400; 2016 158,300; 2017 162,900; 2018 168,200; 2019 173,900; 2020 137,100; 2021 153,400; 2022 171,500; 2023 184,300; 2024 192,500; 2025 197,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025197,52711,301$46,427 2.6%pub.
2024192,48511,064$44,663 4.5%pub.
2023184,28310,657$44,381 7.4%pub.
2022171,53410,047$41,576 11.8%est. · 1.00
2021153,4299,476$39,233 11.9%est. · 1.00
2020137,1159,096$38,841 21.1%est. · 1.00
2019173,8898,760$35,601 3.4%est. · 1.00
2018168,2368,292$33,771 3.3%est. · 1.00
2017162,8797,948$33,608 2.9%est. · 1.00
2016158,3427,649$32,769 3.9%pub.

† 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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries33,01616.7%0.62est. · 1.00
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions33,09716.8%1.41pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries131,41466.5%0.66est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Texas, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Texas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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