Wisconsin · NAICS 517 · Annual, 2025
Telecommunications in Wisconsin
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 517 in Wisconsin, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Telecommunications (NAICS 517) employed about 8,670 people in Wisconsin across roughly 653 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,770.
Employment in Telecommunications in Wisconsin declined 12.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 40.2% above the all-industries average in Wisconsin. Employment fell 41.3% from 2004 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.
- 8,670Employment, 2025
- 653Establishments
- $92,770Avg. annual pay
- 0.3%Share of Wisconsin jobs
- 0.77Location 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
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 14,800; 2005 14,000; 2006 13,600; 2007 13,800; 2008 14,100; 2009 13,800; 2010 13,000; 2011 12,500; 2012 12,000; 2013 11,800; 2014 11,400; 2015 11,300; 2016 11,100; 2017 10,700; 2018 10,500; 2019 10,200; 2020 9,850; 2021 9,600; 2022 9,470; 2023 9,430; 2024 9,120; 2025 8,670.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8,668 | 653 | $92,768 | 4.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 9,116 | 627 | $86,358 | 3.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 9,425 | 1,003 | $81,433 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 9,472 | 1,475 | $78,640 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 9,598 | 769 | $75,626 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 9,855 | 638 | $74,410 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 10,195 | 629 | $70,471 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 10,522 | 615 | $67,184 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 10,725 | 604 | $66,890 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 11,086 | 551 | $63,271 | 1.6% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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Telecommunications in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth
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