Iowa · NAICS 624 · Annual, 2025
Social Assistance in Iowa
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 624 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Social Assistance (NAICS 624) employed about 41,700 people in Iowa across roughly 5,378 establishments, with average annual pay of $30,110.
Employment in Social Assistance in Iowa grew 14.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 52.6% below the all-industries average in Iowa. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 41,700. 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.
- 41,700Employment, 2025
- 5,378Establishments
- $30,110Avg. annual pay
- 2.7%Share of Iowa jobs
- 0.80Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 23,500; 2005 24,100; 2006 25,600; 2007 26,800; 2008 28,300; 2009 29,500; 2010 30,200; 2011 31,300; 2012 32,200; 2013 33,700; 2014 34,500; 2015 35,600; 2016 36,500; 2017 37,200; 2018 37,200; 2019 37,500; 2020 36,400; 2021 36,800; 2022 37,600; 2023 39,500; 2024 40,600; 2025 41,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41,656 | 5,378 | $30,107 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 40,578 | 5,350 | $29,680 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 39,533 | 5,247 | $28,646 | 5.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 37,606 | 5,075 | $27,833 | 2.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 36,767 | 4,915 | $25,518 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 36,441 | 4,976 | $24,516 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 37,451 | 3,832 | $23,073 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 37,207 | 3,588 | $22,536 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 37,250 | 3,405 | $22,078 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 36,485 | 3,321 | $21,783 | 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.
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Social Assistance in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for social assistance in Iowa. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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