Virginia · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Virginia

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

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 86,700 people in Virginia across roughly 4,427 establishments, with average annual pay of $38,110.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Virginia grew 51.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 52.4% below the all-industries average in Virginia. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 86,700. 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.

  • 86,700Employment, 2025
  • 4,427Establishments
  • $38,110Avg. annual pay
  • 2.1%Share of Virginia jobs
  • 1.07Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 60,400 to 86,700.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 60,400; 2005 61,000; 2006 62,400; 2007 64,100; 2008 65,600; 2009 64,200; 2010 64,500; 2011 65,100; 2012 66,600; 2013 65,500; 2014 65,400; 2015 68,800; 2016 71,100; 2017 71,000; 2018 71,900; 2019 73,800; 2020 57,300; 2021 65,300; 2022 73,300; 2023 79,600; 2024 84,200; 2025 86,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202586,7204,427$38,112 3.0%pub.
202484,1724,343$36,690 5.7%pub.
202379,6464,275$35,287 8.6%pub.
202273,3024,271$34,120 12.3%pub.
202165,2883,810$32,562 13.9%pub.
202057,3333,621$33,210 22.3%pub.
201973,7503,484$28,094 2.6%pub.
201871,8773,424$27,303 1.2%pub.
201771,0063,317$26,771 0.1%pub.
201671,0623,249$25,750 3.3%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 Industries10,37012.0%0.66pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions9,66911.2%1.40pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries66,68076.9%1.14pub.

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.

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

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

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