Minnesota · NAICS 238 · Annual, 2025
Specialty Trade Contractors in Minnesota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 238 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Specialty Trade Contractors (NAICS 238) employed about 90,100 people in Minnesota across roughly 11,912 establishments, with average annual pay of $87,520.
Employment in Specialty Trade Contractors in Minnesota grew 13.7% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 90,100. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 90,100Employment, 2025
- 11,912Establishments
- $87,520Avg. annual pay
- 3.1%Share of Minnesota jobs
- 0.92Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 82,200; 2005 83,200; 2006 81,200; 2007 77,000; 2008 70,300; 2009 59,100; 2010 54,800; 2011 57,900; 2012 59,900; 2013 63,300; 2014 67,500; 2015 73,000; 2016 74,400; 2017 77,300; 2018 78,500; 2019 81,800; 2020 79,200; 2021 82,400; 2022 85,400; 2023 86,800; 2024 87,500; 2025 90,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90,090 | 11,912 | $87,516 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 87,450 | 11,940 | $81,888 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 86,832 | 11,784 | $78,171 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 85,381 | 11,513 | $73,777 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 82,363 | 10,962 | $71,234 | 4.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 79,231 | 10,986 | $68,240 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 81,797 | 10,848 | $65,832 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 78,495 | 10,822 | $63,137 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 77,301 | 10,386 | $61,459 | 3.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 74,367 | 10,050 | $59,422 | 1.9% | 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.
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Specialty Trade Contractors in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for specialty trade contractors in Minnesota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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