United States · NAICS 712 · Annual, 2025

Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 712 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions (NAICS 712) employed about 259,600 people in the United States across roughly 10,112 establishments, with average annual pay of $51,150.

Employment in Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions in the United States grew 27.9% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 35.0% below the all-industries average in the United States. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 259,600. 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.

  • 259,600Employment, 2025
  • 10,112Establishments
  • $51,150Avg. annual pay
  • 0.2%Share of U.S. jobs

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 203,300 to 259,600.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 203,300; 2005 205,100; 2006 207,200; 2007 213,700; 2008 219,700; 2009 216,300; 2010 217,400; 2011 219,100; 2012 224,700; 2013 229,200; 2014 234,400; 2015 240,500; 2016 247,300; 2017 248,000; 2018 243,700; 2019 249,000; 2020 203,000; 2021 208,800; 2022 230,300; 2023 249,700; 2024 259,000; 2025 259,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025259,64810,112$51,148 0.2%pub.
2024259,0269,983$49,385 3.7%pub.
2023249,6859,774$47,439 8.4%pub.
2022230,2769,515$45,846 10.3%pub.
2021208,8309,287$44,921 2.9%pub.
2020202,9779,116$44,512 18.5%pub.
2019248,9708,966$38,902 2.1%pub.
2018243,7508,799$38,014 1.7%pub.
2017247,9578,610$37,276 0.3%pub.
2016247,2908,746$36,720 2.8%pub.

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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Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions in the United States, quarterly, at full depth

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