Virginia · NAICS 236 · Annual, 2025
Construction of Buildings in Virginia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 236 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction of Buildings (NAICS 236) employed about 50,100 people in Virginia across roughly 7,405 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,040.
Employment in Construction of Buildings in Virginia grew 14.7% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 38.5% from 2006 to 2012 and has since recovered 60.6% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 50,100Employment, 2025
- 7,405Establishments
- $92,040Avg. annual pay
- 1.2%Share of Virginia jobs
- 1.01Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 53,100; 2005 56,700; 2006 59,100; 2007 56,100; 2008 50,800; 2009 41,100; 2010 38,400; 2011 37,000; 2012 36,300; 2013 36,500; 2014 37,400; 2015 38,600; 2016 39,400; 2017 41,100; 2018 42,500; 2019 43,600; 2020 43,700; 2021 45,300; 2022 47,000; 2023 47,800; 2024 48,500; 2025 50,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50,136 | 7,405 | $92,041 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 48,471 | 7,483 | $89,010 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 47,778 | 7,617 | $86,418 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 46,991 | 7,683 | $77,995 | 3.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 45,314 | 7,105 | $73,579 | 3.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 43,724 | 6,862 | $72,209 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 43,564 | 6,889 | $68,179 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 42,482 | 6,908 | $64,541 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 41,089 | 6,826 | $62,751 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 39,392 | 6,859 | $59,487 | 2.2% | 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.
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Construction of Buildings in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction of buildings in Virginia. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.