Kansas · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Kansas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Kansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 23,100 people in Kansas across roughly 1,141 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,340.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Kansas grew 39.9% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 58.3% below the all-industries average in Kansas. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 23,100. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Kansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 23,100Employment, 2025
  • 1,141Establishments
  • $26,340Avg. annual pay
  • 1.6%Share of Kansas jobs
  • 0.82Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Kansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 17,100 to 23,100.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 17,100; 2005 16,000; 2006 17,200; 2007 17,300; 2008 17,300; 2009 17,000; 2010 16,900; 2011 17,400; 2012 19,600; 2013 19,900; 2014 20,100; 2015 20,300; 2016 20,600; 2017 20,900; 2018 21,200; 2019 21,200; 2020 16,500; 2021 18,600; 2022 20,100; 2023 21,200; 2024 22,300; 2025 23,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202523,0671,141$26,338 3.6%pub.
202422,2551,128$25,491 5.2%pub.
202321,1591,072$25,031 5.1%pub.
202220,1301,041$23,969 8.3%pub.
202118,5811,015$22,596 12.7%est. · 1.00
202016,490977$21,765 22.2%est. · 1.00
201921,205985$19,626 0.2%est. · 1.00
201821,2481,000$18,976 1.9%est. · 0.99
201720,858998$18,042 1.1%est. · 1.00
201620,640994$17,800 1.6%est. · 0.99

† 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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries2,42810.5%0.45pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions1,1014.8%0.46pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries19,53784.7%0.97pub.

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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Kansas, quarterly, at full depth

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