Wisconsin · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Wisconsin

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

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 126,100 people in Wisconsin across roughly 7,004 establishments, with average annual pay of $57,520.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Wisconsin grew 9.6% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 126,100Employment, 2025
  • 7,004Establishments
  • $57,520Avg. annual pay
  • 4.3%Share of Wisconsin jobs
  • 0.88Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Wisconsin, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 107,700 to 126,100.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 107,700; 2005 108,900; 2006 110,700; 2007 111,100; 2008 109,300; 2009 103,000; 2010 99,200; 2011 100,200; 2012 100,200; 2013 100,000; 2014 101,100; 2015 104,800; 2016 108,100; 2017 109,800; 2018 112,500; 2019 115,500; 2020 115,000; 2021 121,400; 2022 128,000; 2023 126,500; 2024 126,500; 2025 126,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025126,1117,004$57,516 0.3%est. · 1.00
2024126,4556,885$55,701 0.0%pub.
2023126,4636,701$54,352 1.2%pub.
2022128,0196,566$52,271 5.5%pub.
2021121,3766,541$50,200 5.5%pub.
2020115,0356,369$47,791 0.4%pub.
2019115,5206,387$45,565 2.7%pub.
2018112,5086,320$44,909 2.4%pub.
2017109,8366,012$43,479 1.6%pub.
2016108,1455,923$42,523 3.2%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 · 10 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation1,7511.4%0.16pub.
483Water Transportation1400.1%0.10est. · 0.94
484Truck Transportation40,82732.4%1.46pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation14,66111.6%0.92pub.
486Pipeline Transportation2320.2%0.21pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation4320.3%0.73pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation7,2375.7%0.43pub.
491Postal Service10,7588.5%0.94pub.
492Couriers and Messengers17,03313.5%0.80pub.
493Warehousing and Storage33,04226.2%0.91pub.

† 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 Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth

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