Mississippi · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Mississippi

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

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 13,100 people in Mississippi across roughly 959 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,260.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Mississippi grew 47.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Mississippi than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.57). Average pay in the industry is 50.7% below 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.

  • 13,100Employment, 2025
  • 959Establishments
  • $26,260Avg. annual pay
  • 1.1%Share of Mississippi jobs
  • 0.57Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Mississippi, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 14,500 to 13,100.05K10K15K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 14,500; 2005 13,700; 2006 12,400; 2007 14,500; 2008 14,200; 2009 13,500; 2010 13,300; 2011 12,300; 2012 12,700; 2013 13,000; 2014 12,600; 2015 12,500; 2016 12,600; 2017 10,800; 2018 10,800; 2019 10,900; 2020 8,910; 2021 9,780; 2022 10,300; 2023 11,900; 2024 12,700; 2025 13,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202513,137959$26,264 3.8%pub.
202412,662919$25,485 6.5%pub.
202311,892891$25,283 15.2%pub.
202210,322848$23,378 5.5%pub.
20219,781824$21,627 9.8%pub.
20208,908812$22,070 18.6%pub.
201910,948808$19,681 1.8%pub.
201810,751812$19,434 0.4%pub.
201710,797789$18,809 14.2%pub.
201612,586789$20,417 0.3%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 Industries1,45811.1%0.33pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions9417.2%0.48pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries10,73881.7%0.65pub.

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 Mississippi, quarterly, at full depth

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