California · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in California

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

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 1,216,200 people in California across roughly 44,962 establishments, with average annual pay of $132,300.

Employment in Manufacturing in California declined 19.9% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 36.5% above the all-industries average in California. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for California are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 1,216,200Employment, 2025
  • 44,962Establishments
  • $132,300Avg. annual pay
  • 6.7%Share of California jobs
  • 0.82Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 1,517,600 to 1,216,200.0500K1M1.5M2M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 1,517,600; 2005 1,498,600; 2006 1,495,100; 2007 1,452,100; 2008 1,414,100; 2009 1,275,800; 2010 1,234,600; 2011 1,238,300; 2012 1,245,800; 2013 1,246,300; 2014 1,264,100; 2015 1,284,300; 2016 1,294,800; 2017 1,303,600; 2018 1,320,100; 2019 1,322,500; 2020 1,263,800; 2021 1,277,600; 2022 1,335,800; 2023 1,329,600; 2024 1,247,600; 2025 1,216,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
20251,216,24044,962$132,297 2.5%pub.
20241,247,61944,845$122,468 6.2%pub.
20231,329,61945,586$123,547 0.5%pub.
20221,335,79845,177$117,801 4.6%pub.
20211,277,56444,509$119,242 1.1%est. · 1.00
20201,263,78844,159$109,888 4.4%est. · 1.00
20191,322,46044,542$98,222 0.2%est. · 1.00
20181,320,07244,708$95,627 1.3%est. · 1.00
20171,303,55342,217$92,246 0.7%est. · 1.00
20161,294,76441,212$87,160 0.8%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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing166,77213.7%0.80pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing63,9135.3%1.66pub.
313Textile Mills3,9920.3%0.42pub.
314Textile Product Mills6,3680.5%0.59pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing23,8312.0%2.58pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing2,0640.2%0.74pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing24,4382.0%0.52pub.
322Paper Manufacturing18,9701.6%0.46pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities29,1302.4%0.72pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing10,4130.9%0.81pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing75,5006.2%0.72pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing40,1213.3%0.49pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing29,4862.4%0.61pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing13,0381.1%0.31pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing118,0639.7%0.71pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing70,3205.8%0.55pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing225,15618.5%1.93pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing31,1442.6%0.62pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing154,41312.7%0.74pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing25,7982.1%0.66pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing83,3096.9%1.16pub.

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 California, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in California. 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.