Mississippi · NAICS 483 · Annual, 2025
Water Transportation in Mississippi
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 483 in Mississippi, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Water Transportation (NAICS 483) employed about 1,130 people in Mississippi across roughly 24 establishments, with average annual pay of $105,290.
Employment in Water Transportation in Mississippi grew 23.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.1× as concentrated in Mississippi as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.13). Average pay in the industry is 97.8% above the all-industries average in Mississippi. 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.
- 1,130Employment, 2025
- 24Establishments
- $105,290Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of Mississippi jobs
- 2.13Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 700; 2005 660; 2006 680; 2007 750; 2008 760; 2009 780; 2010 870; 2011 920; 2012 950; 2013 1,000; 2014 1,030; 2015 1,120; 2016 1,110; 2017 990; 2018 990; 2019 950; 2020 920; 2021 910; 2022 980; 2023 1,060; 2024 1,120; 2025 1,130.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,134 | 24 | $105,287 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 1,120 | 24 | $100,978 | 5.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 1,063 | 20 | $97,379 | 8.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 977 | 17 | $93,244 | 7.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 907 | 14 | $89,550 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 920 | 14 | $86,554 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 952 | 16 | $81,347 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 987 | 17 | $75,562 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 995 | 20 | $74,537 | 10.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 1,110 | 21 | $74,244 | 1.0% | 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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Water Transportation in Mississippi, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for water transportation in Mississippi. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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