Maine · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Maine

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in Maine, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 660 people in Maine across roughly 169 establishments, with average annual pay of $40,740.

Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Maine grew 45.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Maine than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.44). Employment fell 67.2% from 2008 to 2020 and has since recovered 22.4% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Maine are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 660Employment, 2025
  • 169Establishments
  • $40,740Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Maine jobs
  • 0.44Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Maine, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 800 to 660.05001K1.5K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 800; 2005 1,080; 2006 1,140; 2007 1,290; 2008 1,380; 2009 750; 2010 770; 2011 670; 2012 650; 2013 640; 2014 680; 2015 770; 2016 850; 2017 870; 2018 870; 2019 900; 2020 450; 2021 520; 2022 680; 2023 690; 2024 650; 2025 660.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025662169$40,736 1.9%pub.
2024650181$40,794 5.3%pub.
2023686178$40,139 1.0%pub.
2022679172$38,357 31.3%pub.
2021518153$37,316 14.0%pub.
2020454142$32,529 49.6%pub.
2019901143$21,290 3.3%pub.
2018872139$20,536 0.7%pub.
2017866138$20,590 2.1%pub.
2016848150$19,865 9.9%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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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Maine, quarterly, at full depth

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