Minnesota · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Minnesota

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

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 56,200 people in Minnesota across roughly 4,025 establishments, with average annual pay of $48,640.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Minnesota grew 53.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 36.8% below the all-industries average in Minnesota. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 56,200. 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.

  • 56,200Employment, 2025
  • 4,025Establishments
  • $48,640Avg. annual pay
  • 1.9%Share of Minnesota jobs
  • 0.98Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Minnesota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 47,100 to 56,200.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 47,100; 2005 48,000; 2006 49,200; 2007 49,600; 2008 49,800; 2009 49,000; 2010 48,300; 2011 48,600; 2012 49,800; 2013 49,000; 2014 49,600; 2015 49,300; 2016 50,300; 2017 51,900; 2018 53,000; 2019 53,600; 2020 36,700; 2021 42,300; 2022 49,300; 2023 51,900; 2024 54,500; 2025 56,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202556,1804,025$48,640 3.0%pub.
202454,5414,000$45,791 5.1%pub.
202351,9003,969$45,627 5.3%pub.
202249,3063,834$44,878 16.7%pub.
202142,2643,556$42,771 15.1%pub.
202036,7063,518$43,718 31.5%pub.
201953,6023,411$36,684 1.1%pub.
201853,0453,320$36,080 2.1%pub.
201751,9293,116$33,402 3.3%pub.
201650,2612,997$32,435 2.1%pub.

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 Industries13,01023.2%1.17pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions4,0427.2%0.82pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries39,12769.7%0.95pub.

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.

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

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation 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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