Wisconsin · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in Wisconsin
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Wisconsin, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 23,200 people in Wisconsin across roughly 5,808 establishments, with average annual pay of $61,460.
Employment in Real Estate in Wisconsin grew 14.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Wisconsin than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.66). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 23,200. 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.
- 23,200Employment, 2025
- 5,808Establishments
- $61,460Avg. annual pay
- 0.8%Share of Wisconsin jobs
- 0.66Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 19,100; 2005 19,400; 2006 19,700; 2007 19,600; 2008 19,200; 2009 18,200; 2010 17,900; 2011 17,800; 2012 17,900; 2013 18,100; 2014 18,200; 2015 18,600; 2016 19,000; 2017 19,700; 2018 20,000; 2019 20,200; 2020 20,200; 2021 21,100; 2022 21,500; 2023 22,100; 2024 23,000; 2025 23,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23,205 | 5,808 | $61,456 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 22,998 | 5,472 | $59,802 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 22,138 | 5,100 | $56,283 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 21,450 | 4,790 | $54,021 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 21,072 | 4,641 | $50,625 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 20,215 | 4,457 | $48,043 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 20,221 | 4,346 | $44,816 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 19,968 | 4,245 | $43,238 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 19,719 | 3,808 | $40,893 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 19,047 | 3,650 | $40,014 | 2.3% | 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.
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Real Estate in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth
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