Wisconsin · NAICS 11 · Annual, 2025

Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Wisconsin

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 11 in Wisconsin, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting (NAICS 11) employed about 29,400 people in Wisconsin across roughly 2,901 establishments, with average annual pay of $48,720.

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Wisconsin grew 5.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Wisconsin as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.26). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 29,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Wisconsin are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 29,400Employment, 2025
  • 2,901Establishments
  • $48,720Avg. annual pay
  • 1.0%Share of Wisconsin jobs
  • 1.26Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Wisconsin, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 17,900 to 29,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 17,900; 2005 18,400; 2006 19,100; 2007 19,900; 2008 21,000; 2009 21,500; 2010 22,300; 2011 23,000; 2012 24,100; 2013 24,700; 2014 25,300; 2015 26,800; 2016 27,900; 2017 28,400; 2018 28,300; 2019 28,000; 2020 28,000; 2021 28,100; 2022 28,300; 2023 28,700; 2024 29,200; 2025 29,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202529,4122,901$48,720 0.6%pub.
202429,2242,831$46,991 2.0%pub.
202328,6582,697$45,488 1.3%est. · 1.00
202228,3032,706$42,960 0.6%pub.
202128,1442,708$40,182 0.6%pub.
202027,9792,699$38,822 0.0%pub.
201927,9852,698$36,965 1.2%est. · 1.00
201828,3352,740$35,769 0.2%pub.
201728,4022,678$34,751 1.7%pub.
201627,9232,623$33,784 4.1%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 · 5 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of agriculture, forestry, fishing and huntingLQSource
111Crop Production6,89823.4%0.69est. · 1.00
112Animal Production and Aquaculture17,82160.6%3.48est. · 1.00
113Forestry and Logging6702.3%0.71pub.
114Fishing, Hunting and Trapping1000.3%0.71est. · 0.99
115Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry3,92413.3%0.54est. · 1.00

† 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.

Notes

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Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting in Wisconsin. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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