Mississippi · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025
Construction in Mississippi
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in Mississippi, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 56,500 people in Mississippi across roughly 7,102 establishments, with average annual pay of $69,760.
Employment in Construction in Mississippi grew 5.9% from 2024 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Mississippi are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 56,500Employment, 2025
- 7,102Establishments
- $69,760Avg. annual pay
- 4.8%Share of Mississippi jobs
- 0.89Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 52,700; 2005 55,700; 2006 60,800; 2007 62,400; 2008 64,100; 2009 54,900; 2010 52,800; 2011 52,200; 2012 51,700; 2013 54,600; 2014 52,700; 2015 49,200; 2016 47,600; 2017 46,700; 2018 47,200; 2019 47,700; 2020 46,900; 2021 47,800; 2022 48,900; 2023 51,200; 2024 53,300; 2025 56,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56,469 | 7,102 | $69,757 | 5.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 53,350 | 6,892 | $66,152 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 51,226 | 6,648 | $61,811 | 4.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 48,884 | 6,242 | $58,376 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 47,813 | 5,960 | $54,527 | 1.8% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2020 | 46,946 | 5,854 | $52,632 | 1.6% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2019 | 47,721 | 5,787 | $49,906 | 1.2% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2018 | 47,161 | 5,776 | $49,191 | 1.1% | est. · 0.99 |
| 2017 | 46,650 | 5,687 | $47,825 | 2.0% | est. · 0.98 |
| 2016 | 47,623 | 5,829 | $46,934 | 3.2% | pub. |
† 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of construction | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 236 | Construction of Buildings | 10,633 | 18.8% | 0.76 | pub. |
| 237 | Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction | 15,327 | 27.1% | 1.49 | pub. |
| 238 | Specialty Trade Contractors | 30,509 | 54.0% | 0.78 | pub. |
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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Construction in Mississippi, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for construction in Mississippi. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.