Delaware · NAICS 238 · Annual, 2025
Specialty Trade Contractors in Delaware
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 238 in Delaware, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238) employed about 16,200 people in Delaware across roughly 2,361 establishments, with average annual pay of $75,300.
Employment in Specialty Trade Contractors in Delaware grew 10.1% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Delaware are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 16,200Employment, 2025
- 2,361Establishments
- $75,300Avg. annual pay
- 3.4%Share of Delaware jobs
- 1.01Location 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
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 16,200; 2005 17,500; 2006 17,900; 2007 16,600; 2008 15,100; 2009 12,200; 2010 12,000; 2011 12,300; 2012 11,800; 2013 12,600; 2014 13,000; 2015 13,400; 2016 13,400; 2017 14,000; 2018 14,600; 2019 15,000; 2020 14,700; 2021 15,300; 2022 15,400; 2023 15,700; 2024 16,000; 2025 16,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16,170 | 2,361 | $75,298 | 1.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 15,966 | 2,356 | $73,606 | 1.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 15,706 | 2,310 | $70,336 | 2.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 15,380 | 2,186 | $65,870 | 0.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 15,335 | 2,024 | $63,710 | 4.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 14,682 | 1,958 | $61,348 | 2.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 15,006 | 1,904 | $60,012 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 14,632 | 1,822 | $57,714 | 4.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 14,031 | 1,750 | $57,010 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 13,384 | 1,772 | $54,548 | 0.2% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Specialty Trade Contractors in Delaware, quarterly, at full depth
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