West Virginia · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in West Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 140 people in West Virginia across roughly 37 establishments, with average annual pay of $62,180.

Employment in Air Transportation in West Virginia grew 14.0% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in West Virginia than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.06). Employment fell 79.6% from 2004 to 2020 and has since recovered 19.5% of that loss. 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.

  • 140Employment, 2025
  • 37Establishments
  • $62,180Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of West Virginia jobs
  • 0.06Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in West Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 400 to 140.020040060020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 400; 2005 380; 2006 350; 2007 240; 2008 240; 2009 190; 2010 190; 2011 200; 2012 180; 2013 90; 2014 90; 2015 100; 2016 100; 2017 100; 2018 100; 2019 100; 2020 80; 2021 100; 2022 120; 2023 120; 2024 130; 2025 140.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202514437$62,179 14.0%pub.
202412734$54,094 7.9%pub.
202311728$56,593 1.0%pub.
202211920$47,428 16.9%pub.
202110119$42,697 23.9%pub.
20208219$41,203 14.5%pub.
20199620$43,035 8.7%pub.
201810524$43,329 4.7%pub.
201710025$42,087 1.0%pub.
20169925$39,156 2.5%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.

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Air Transportation in West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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