West Virginia · NAICS 483 · Annual, 2025

Water Transportation in West Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 483 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Water Transportation (NAICS 483) employed about 280 people in West Virginia across roughly 14 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,430.

Employment in Water Transportation in West Virginia grew 8.1% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 53.1% above the all-industries average in West Virginia. Employment fell 66.9% from 2008 to 2023 and has since recovered 4.4% 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.

  • 280Employment, 2025
  • 14Establishments
  • $92,430Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of West Virginia jobs
  • 0.87Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Water Transportation in West Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 670 to 280.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 670; 2005 670; 2006 690; 2007 740; 2008 770; 2009 730; 2010 450; 2011 440; 2012 470; 2013 460; 2014 410; 2015 380; 2016 370; 2017 360; 2018 350; 2019 350; 2020 350; 2021 300; 2022 260; 2023 250; 2024 260; 2025 280.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202527614$92,430 8.1%pub.
202425614$90,736 0.8%pub.
202325413$90,956 2.2%pub.
202226011$88,467 12.5%pub.
20212979$86,083 14.6%pub.
202034810$83,239 1.4%pub.
201935210$78,682 0.7%pub.
201835511$73,521 2.1%pub.
201736211$74,519 0.9%pub.
201636610$75,376 3.2%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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Water Transportation in West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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