United States · NAICS 525 · Annual, 2025

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 525 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (NAICS 525) employed about 34,200 people in the United States across roughly 10,575 establishments, with average annual pay of $205,460.

Employment in Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles in the United States grew 7.2% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 161.0% above the all-industries average in the United States. Employment fell 96.2% from 2006 to 2013 and has since recovered 32.7% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 34,200Employment, 2025
  • 10,575Establishments
  • $205,460Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of U.S. jobs

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 90,700 to 34,200.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 90,700; 2005 93,500; 2006 97,000; 2007 94,700; 2008 95,900; 2009 93,000; 2010 92,600; 2011 92,900; 2012 93,900; 2013 3,640; 2014 5,670; 2015 7,020; 2016 10,100; 2017 12,700; 2018 14,800; 2019 16,800; 2020 18,700; 2021 21,900; 2022 27,100; 2023 30,200; 2024 31,900; 2025 34,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202534,16710,575$205,462 7.2%pub.
202431,87510,150$190,213 5.5%pub.
202330,2259,666$179,359 11.6%pub.
202227,0828,745$175,014 23.6%pub.
202121,9187,533$164,232 17.4%est. · 0.99
202018,6766,491$159,001 11.5%est. · 0.99
201916,7555,866$146,139 13.0%est. · 1.00
201814,8275,271$143,402 16.6%est. · 1.00
201712,7144,763$137,858 26.3%est. · 1.00
201610,0704,048$134,307 43.4%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

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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