Wisconsin · NAICS 483 · Annual, 2025

Water Transportation in Wisconsin

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

In 2025, Water Transportation (NAICS 483) employed about 140 people in Wisconsin across roughly 10 establishments, with average annual pay of $50,840.

Employment in Water Transportation in Wisconsin declined 9.5% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Wisconsin than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.10). QCEW withheld part of this figure for Wisconsin; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.94. 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.

  • 140Employment, 2025
  • 10Establishments
  • $50,840Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Wisconsin jobs
  • 0.10Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.94. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Water Transportation in Wisconsin, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 120 to 140.05010015020020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 120; 2005 120; 2006 110; 2007 120; 2008 130; 2009 130; 2010 120; 2011 110; 2012 130; 2013 130; 2014 120; 2015 130; 2016 140; 2017 140; 2018 150; 2019 150; 2020 110; 2021 140; 2022 150; 2023 160; 2024 160; 2025 140.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202514010$50,844 9.5%est. · 0.94
20241559$45,316 0.6%pub.
20231569$46,185 2.6%est. · 0.87
20221529$40,291 11.6%est. · 0.92
20211369$44,251 20.9%est. · 0.90
20201139$45,312 26.3%est. · 0.91
201915310$35,325 5.5%pub.
20181459$33,454 0.4%pub.
20171448$32,533 3.8%pub.
20161399$33,668 8.6%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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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Water Transportation in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth

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