California · NAICS 322 · Annual, 2025
Paper Manufacturing in California
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 322 in California, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Paper Manufacturing (NAICS 322) employed about 19,000 people in California across roughly 460 establishments, with average annual pay of $85,050.
Employment in Paper Manufacturing in California declined 5.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in California than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.46). 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.
- 19,000Employment, 2025
- 460Establishments
- $85,050Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of California jobs
- 0.46Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,300; 2005 27,900; 2006 27,600; 2007 27,000; 2008 25,700; 2009 22,600; 2010 21,900; 2011 22,000; 2012 21,300; 2013 20,800; 2014 21,000; 2015 21,800; 2016 22,000; 2017 21,600; 2018 21,300; 2019 21,300; 2020 20,100; 2021 19,900; 2022 20,600; 2023 20,100; 2024 19,800; 2025 19,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,970 | 460 | $85,054 | 4.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 19,790 | 460 | $82,503 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 20,079 | 460 | $78,411 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 20,601 | 463 | $77,727 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2021 | 19,910 | 476 | $76,435 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 20,053 | 489 | $70,928 | 5.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 21,265 | 501 | $67,384 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 21,262 | 511 | $66,142 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 21,598 | 496 | $63,319 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 21,954 | 488 | $62,869 | 0.7% | 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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Paper Manufacturing in California, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for paper manufacturing in California. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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