Iowa · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in Iowa

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 620 people in Iowa across roughly 49 establishments, with average annual pay of $69,540.

Employment in Air Transportation in Iowa grew 78.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Iowa than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.11). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 620. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Iowa are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 620Employment, 2025
  • 49Establishments
  • $69,540Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Iowa jobs
  • 0.11Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in Iowa, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 470 to 620.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 470; 2005 430; 2006 370; 2007 340; 2008 370; 2009 410; 2010 610; 2011 360; 2012 380; 2013 250; 2014 220; 2015 180; 2016 200; 2017 200; 2018 220; 2019 380; 2020 350; 2021 420; 2022 530; 2023 550; 2024 600; 2025 620.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202561649$69,537 2.0%pub.
202460447$63,275 9.3%pub.
202355348$63,521 4.1%pub.
202253147$64,972 25.3%pub.
202142440$59,149 22.6%pub.
202034635$49,510 9.1%pub.
201938037$46,601 72.0%pub.
201822132$58,244 8.9%pub.
201720333$56,323 0.3%pub.
201620432$54,255 10.2%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.

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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Air Transportation in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth

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