District of Columbia · NAICS 56 · Annual, 2025
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in the District of Columbia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 56 in the District of Columbia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services (NAICS 56) employed about 47,300 people in the District of Columbia across roughly 3,352 establishments, with average annual pay of $76,800.
Employment in Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in the District of Columbia grew 12.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 40.4% below the all-industries average in the District of Columbia. 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.
- 47,300Employment, 2025
- 3,352Establishments
- $76,800Avg. annual pay
- 6.4%Share of District of Columbia jobs
- 1.09Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 42,200; 2005 43,200; 2006 43,400; 2007 44,200; 2008 43,700; 2009 41,200; 2010 41,700; 2011 44,600; 2012 45,200; 2013 45,700; 2014 46,200; 2015 47,300; 2016 47,500; 2017 46,900; 2018 46,400; 2019 47,100; 2020 42,200; 2021 42,900; 2022 46,600; 2023 48,400; 2024 47,400; 2025 47,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47,327 | 3,352 | $76,799 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 47,371 | 3,449 | $71,615 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 48,389 | 3,436 | $69,406 | 3.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 46,623 | 3,119 | $68,114 | 8.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 42,863 | 2,710 | $63,978 | 1.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 42,155 | 2,494 | $60,773 | 10.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 47,092 | 2,396 | $54,819 | 1.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 46,443 | 2,230 | $53,029 | 0.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 46,861 | 2,148 | $52,552 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 47,517 | 2,109 | $50,625 | 0.5% | pub. |
† 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 · 2 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of administrative and support and waste management and remediation services | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 561 | Administrative and Support Services | 46,954 | 99.2% | 1.15 | pub. |
| 562 | Waste Management and Remediation Services | 373 | 0.8% | 0.14 | 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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Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services in District of Columbia, quarterly, at full depth
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