Alabama · NAICS 22 · Annual, 2025
Utilities in Alabama
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 22 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Utilities (NAICS 22) employed about 22,100 people in Alabama across roughly 856 establishments, with average annual pay of $121,550.
Employment in Utilities in Alabama was essentially flat from 2004 to 2025 (-1.2%). The industry is 1.9× as concentrated in Alabama as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.85). Average pay in the industry is 88.5% above the all-industries average in Alabama. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Alabama are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 22,100Employment, 2025
- 856Establishments
- $121,550Avg. annual pay
- 1.0%Share of Alabama jobs
- 1.85Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 22,400; 2005 21,300; 2006 21,700; 2007 22,200; 2008 22,500; 2009 22,500; 2010 23,200; 2011 23,500; 2012 23,500; 2013 23,600; 2014 23,500; 2015 23,500; 2016 23,200; 2017 22,600; 2018 22,600; 2019 22,100; 2020 21,800; 2021 21,700; 2022 21,700; 2023 22,000; 2024 22,100; 2025 22,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22,133 | 856 | $121,547 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 22,061 | 829 | $114,809 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 22,000 | 811 | $110,476 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 21,651 | 789 | $107,090 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 21,668 | 766 | $102,561 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 21,808 | 751 | $102,295 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 22,127 | 774 | $99,464 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 22,594 | 764 | $93,326 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 22,636 | 757 | $88,963 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 23,172 | 751 | $86,847 | 1.2% | 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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Utilities in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for utilities in Alabama. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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