District of Columbia · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in the District of Columbia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 420 people in the District of Columbia across roughly 14 establishments, with average annual pay of $42,130.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in the District of Columbia grew 106.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.8× as concentrated in the District of Columbia as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.80). Employment fell 69.6% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 46.5% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the District of Columbia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 420Employment, 2025
  • 14Establishments
  • $42,130Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of District of Columbia jobs
  • 2.80Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 90 to 420.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 90; 2005 210; 2006 140; 2007 110; 2008 270; 2009 290; 2010 350; 2011 280; 2012 230; 2013 210; 2014 390; 2015 570; 2016 560; 2017 660; 2018 660; 2019 590; 2020 200; 2021 210; 2022 350; 2023 400; 2024 400; 2025 420.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202541714$42,134 4.7%pub.
202439912$41,019 1.3%pub.
202340412$38,381 15.3%pub.
202235012$39,705 64.1%pub.
202121312$35,907 5.5%pub.
202020212$37,172 66.0%pub.
201959514$35,879 10.5%pub.
201866515$32,398 1.4%pub.
201765613$31,101 17.2%pub.
201656013$30,078 2.5%pub.

† 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.

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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in District of Columbia, quarterly, at full depth

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