Alabama · NAICS 321 · Annual, 2025
Wood Product Manufacturing in Alabama
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 321 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wood Product Manufacturing (NAICS 321) employed about 18,500 people in Alabama across roughly 441 establishments, with average annual pay of $65,540.
Employment in Wood Product Manufacturing in Alabama declined 10.8% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 3.4× as concentrated in Alabama as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 3.37). Employment fell 41.0% from 2006 to 2010 and has since recovered 65.4% of that loss. 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.
- 18,500Employment, 2025
- 441Establishments
- $65,540Avg. annual pay
- 0.9%Share of Alabama jobs
- 3.37Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 20,700; 2005 20,900; 2006 21,500; 2007 20,300; 2008 18,000; 2009 13,000; 2010 12,700; 2011 13,000; 2012 13,200; 2013 13,700; 2014 14,400; 2015 15,200; 2016 15,800; 2017 16,200; 2018 17,300; 2019 17,600; 2020 17,700; 2021 18,900; 2022 19,500; 2023 18,800; 2024 18,700; 2025 18,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,461 | 441 | $65,544 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 18,733 | 447 | $63,653 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 18,791 | 447 | $60,359 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 19,505 | 428 | $59,791 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 18,941 | 403 | $54,625 | 7.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 17,657 | 399 | $50,656 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 17,648 | 393 | $47,421 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 17,303 | 389 | $46,043 | 6.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 16,246 | 379 | $44,315 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 15,833 | 367 | $42,816 | 4.4% | 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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Wood Product Manufacturing in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wood product manufacturing in Alabama. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.