Minnesota · NAICS 711 · Annual, 2025

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Minnesota

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 711 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711) employed about 13,000 people in Minnesota across roughly 1,420 establishments, with average annual pay of $114,220.

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Minnesota grew 81.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 48.4% above the all-industries average in Minnesota. Employment fell 41.7% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 113.8% of that loss. 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.

  • 13,000Employment, 2025
  • 1,420Establishments
  • $114,220Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of Minnesota jobs
  • 1.17Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Minnesota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 7,650 to 13,000.05K10K15K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 7,650; 2005 7,660; 2006 8,060; 2007 8,540; 2008 8,580; 2009 8,460; 2010 8,550; 2011 8,590; 2012 8,600; 2013 8,810; 2014 9,950; 2015 10,200; 2016 10,700; 2017 11,700; 2018 12,300; 2019 12,200; 2020 7,170; 2021 8,770; 2022 11,900; 2023 12,600; 2024 13,200; 2025 13,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202513,0101,420$114,222 1.6%pub.
202413,2281,401$100,759 4.6%pub.
202312,6421,380$100,878 5.9%pub.
202211,9411,300$99,847 36.2%pub.
20218,7671,165$105,431 22.3%est. · 1.00
20207,1681,147$117,647 41.0%est. · 1.00
201912,1601,110$84,598 1.1%est. · 1.00
201812,3021,082$80,406 5.3%est. · 1.00
201711,6791,012$72,952 9.0%est. · 1.00
201610,714962$71,452 4.6%est. · 1.00

† 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.

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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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth

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