Alabama · NAICS 238 · Annual, 2025

Specialty Trade Contractors in Alabama

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 238 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238) employed about 66,400 people in Alabama across roughly 7,950 establishments, with average annual pay of $70,700.

Employment in Specialty Trade Contractors in Alabama grew 21.0% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 66,400Employment, 2025
  • 7,950Establishments
  • $70,700Avg. annual pay
  • 3.1%Share of Alabama jobs
  • 0.94Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Specialty Trade Contractors in Alabama, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 61,300 to 66,400.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 61,300; 2005 62,600; 2006 65,800; 2007 67,600; 2008 65,800; 2009 54,900; 2010 50,800; 2011 47,200; 2012 46,000; 2013 45,900; 2014 46,600; 2015 47,400; 2016 49,100; 2017 49,300; 2018 52,100; 2019 54,700; 2020 54,800; 2021 56,400; 2022 58,700; 2023 60,400; 2024 63,900; 2025 66,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202566,3717,950$70,695 3.9%pub.
202463,9017,726$66,776 5.8%pub.
202360,4167,469$62,721 3.0%pub.
202258,6657,127$59,516 4.0%pub.
202156,3906,744$55,697 2.8%pub.
202054,8506,341$53,439 0.4%pub.
201954,6586,222$50,823 4.8%pub.
201852,1456,118$48,479 5.7%pub.
201749,3195,973$46,180 0.5%pub.
201649,0955,836$45,357 3.5%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.

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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Specialty Trade Contractors in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for specialty trade contractors 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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