Alabama · NAICS 53 · Annual, 2025

Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Alabama

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 53 in Alabama, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53) employed about 28,700 people in Alabama across roughly 6,830 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,970.

Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Alabama grew 15.9% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 28,700. 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.

  • 28,700Employment, 2025
  • 6,830Establishments
  • $63,970Avg. annual pay
  • 1.4%Share of Alabama jobs
  • 0.86Location 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

Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Alabama, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 27,100 to 28,700.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 27,100; 2005 27,100; 2006 27,000; 2007 27,700; 2008 26,800; 2009 25,100; 2010 23,700; 2011 23,000; 2012 23,200; 2013 23,700; 2014 23,600; 2015 23,800; 2016 24,200; 2017 24,600; 2018 25,000; 2019 25,500; 2020 24,800; 2021 25,600; 2022 27,200; 2023 28,000; 2024 28,100; 2025 28,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202528,7316,830$63,967 2.3%est. · 1.00
202428,0746,695$60,878 0.3%est. · 1.00
202327,9876,489$59,109 2.8%est. · 1.00
202227,2136,187$57,448 6.4%est. · 1.00
202125,5755,774$53,832 3.2%est. · 1.00
202024,7835,500$49,976 2.7%est. · 1.00
201925,4765,329$47,160 2.0%est. · 1.00
201824,9765,177$44,659 1.4%est. · 1.00
201724,6425,002$43,786 1.6%est. · 1.00
201624,2434,833$42,257 2.1%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of real estate and rental and leasingLQSource
531Real Estate20,45971.2%0.81est. · 0.99
532Rental and Leasing Services8,14728.4%1.05pub.
533Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)1250.4%0.42pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Alabama, quarterly, at full depth

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