Arkansas · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arkansas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 18,100 people in Arkansas across roughly 1,340 establishments, with average annual pay of $30,640.
Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arkansas grew 38.6% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Arkansas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.71). Average pay in the industry is 49.9% below the all-industries average in Arkansas. 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.
- 18,100Employment, 2025
- 1,340Establishments
- $30,640Avg. annual pay
- 1.4%Share of Arkansas jobs
- 0.71Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 11,700; 2005 11,900; 2006 12,100; 2007 12,600; 2008 12,900; 2009 12,700; 2010 12,600; 2011 12,500; 2012 12,600; 2013 13,000; 2014 13,600; 2015 14,000; 2016 14,400; 2017 14,600; 2018 14,900; 2019 15,100; 2020 13,100; 2021 14,500; 2022 16,100; 2023 16,900; 2024 17,600; 2025 18,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,138 | 1,340 | $30,645 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 17,597 | 1,274 | $31,073 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 16,865 | 1,256 | $30,402 | 5.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 16,065 | 1,229 | $29,207 | 10.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 14,506 | 1,221 | $27,158 | 10.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 13,087 | 1,203 | $25,451 | 13.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 15,135 | 1,151 | $22,464 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 14,852 | 1,125 | $21,771 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 14,619 | 1,105 | $21,234 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 14,405 | 1,094 | $20,649 | 3.1% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of arts, entertainment, and recreation | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 711 | Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries | 2,979 | 16.4% | 0.60 | pub. |
| 712 | Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions | 3,357 | 18.5% | 1.54 | pub. |
| 713 | Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries | 11,802 | 65.1% | 0.64 | pub. |
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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Arkansas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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