Iowa · NAICS 721 · Annual, 2025
Accommodation in Iowa
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 721 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Accommodation (NAICS 721) employed about 18,400 people in Iowa across roughly 833 establishments, with average annual pay of $33,740.
Employment in Accommodation in Iowa grew 16.9% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 46.8% below the all-industries average in Iowa. QCEW withheld part of this figure for Iowa; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.98. 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.
- 18,400Employment, 2025
- 833Establishments
- $33,740Avg. annual pay
- 1.2%Share of Iowa jobs
- 0.91Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.98. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,000; 2005 17,700; 2006 18,000; 2007 19,000; 2008 18,800; 2009 18,100; 2010 17,700; 2011 18,000; 2012 19,200; 2013 20,700; 2014 21,000; 2015 21,300; 2016 21,500; 2017 21,700; 2018 21,500; 2019 21,400; 2020 15,800; 2021 16,400; 2022 17,700; 2023 18,400; 2024 18,500; 2025 18,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18,448 | 833 | $33,738 | 0.1% | est. · 0.98 |
| 2024 | 18,459 | 848 | $32,269 | 0.3% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2023 | 18,404 | 852 | $31,457 | 4.1% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2022 | 17,672 | 877 | $30,713 | 8.0% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2021 | 16,369 | 884 | $28,518 | 3.7% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2020 | 15,780 | 876 | $26,683 | 26.2% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2019 | 21,372 | 871 | $25,044 | 0.6% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2018 | 21,494 | 871 | $24,683 | 0.8% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2017 | 21,674 | 859 | $23,702 | 0.7% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2016 | 21,532 | 842 | $23,151 | 1.0% | est. · 0.99 |
† 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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Accommodation in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth
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