West Virginia · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in West Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 25,400 people in West Virginia across roughly 2,324 establishments, with average annual pay of $61,920.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in West Virginia grew 6.4% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for West Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 25,400Employment, 2025
  • 2,324Establishments
  • $61,920Avg. annual pay
  • 3.7%Share of West Virginia jobs
  • 0.75Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in West Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 23,900 to 25,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 23,900; 2005 24,100; 2006 24,200; 2007 24,400; 2008 24,800; 2009 23,100; 2010 22,600; 2011 22,900; 2012 22,400; 2013 24,200; 2014 25,800; 2015 26,500; 2016 25,900; 2017 26,300; 2018 27,400; 2019 27,500; 2020 26,000; 2021 26,700; 2022 26,900; 2023 26,200; 2024 25,900; 2025 25,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202525,4082,324$61,916 2.1%pub.
202425,9452,372$60,083 1.1%pub.
202326,2472,346$58,317 2.3%pub.
202226,8632,268$55,038 0.7%pub.
202126,6852,277$52,026 2.7%pub.
202025,9922,241$49,013 5.6%pub.
201927,5312,251$47,677 0.6%pub.
201827,3792,275$46,899 4.2%pub.
201726,2852,231$46,785 1.7%pub.
201625,8562,212$45,396 2.5%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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation1440.6%0.06pub.
482Rail Transportation50.0%0.72est. · 0.95
483Water Transportation2761.1%0.87pub.
484Truck Transportation6,54425.8%0.99pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation4,01615.8%1.07pub.
486Pipeline Transportation7953.1%3.13pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation1350.5%0.96pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation3,43513.5%0.86pub.
491Postal Service3,62714.3%1.35est. · 1.00
492Couriers and Messengers2,80011.0%0.56pub.
493Warehousing and Storage3,63114.3%0.43pub.

† 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.

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Transportation and Warehousing in West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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