Arkansas · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Arkansas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 159,000 people in Arkansas across roughly 2,943 establishments, with average annual pay of $64,200.

Employment in Manufacturing in Arkansas declined 22.0% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Arkansas as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.50). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arkansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 159,000Employment, 2025
  • 2,943Establishments
  • $64,200Avg. annual pay
  • 12.2%Share of Arkansas jobs
  • 1.50Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Arkansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 203,900 to 159,000.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 203,900; 2005 201,100; 2006 198,800; 2007 189,300; 2008 182,500; 2009 164,100; 2010 160,100; 2011 159,400; 2012 155,600; 2013 152,600; 2014 154,100; 2015 154,900; 2016 154,800; 2017 157,300; 2018 160,600; 2019 162,200; 2020 154,900; 2021 157,200; 2022 162,500; 2023 162,800; 2024 162,000; 2025 159,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025158,9872,943$64,200 1.9%pub.
2024162,0002,967$61,225 0.5%pub.
2023162,8332,980$58,659 0.2%pub.
2022162,4822,979$56,738 3.4%pub.
2021157,2043,011$54,261 1.5%pub.
2020154,9222,961$51,570 4.5%pub.
2019162,2142,930$49,202 1.0%pub.
2018160,5972,918$47,984 2.1%pub.
2017157,3052,928$46,766 1.6%pub.
2016154,7742,933$45,347 0.1%pub.

† 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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing51,82532.6%3.48pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing1,9481.2%0.71pub.
313Textile Mills420.0%0.06pub.
314Textile Product Mills7090.4%0.91pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing4550.3%0.69pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing7800.5%3.93pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing9,5306.0%2.83pub.
322Paper Manufacturing8,6965.5%2.95pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities2,8341.8%0.97pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing1,0340.7%1.13pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing5,1993.3%0.69pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing10,5596.6%1.80pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing3,8902.5%1.12pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing8,8605.6%2.91pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing16,17610.2%1.35pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing11,5777.3%1.27pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing1,3840.9%0.17pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing4,2572.7%1.17pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing13,0968.2%0.88pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing3,2002.0%1.14pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing2,9351.8%0.57pub.

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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Manufacturing in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Arkansas. 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.