Missouri · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Missouri

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 281,900 people in Missouri across roughly 8,872 establishments, with average annual pay of $77,830.

Employment in Manufacturing in Missouri grew 5.8% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Missouri are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 281,900Employment, 2025
  • 8,872Establishments
  • $77,830Avg. annual pay
  • 9.7%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 1.20Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 312,100 to 281,900.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 312,100; 2005 308,900; 2006 307,000; 2007 299,700; 2008 289,100; 2009 255,200; 2010 243,000; 2011 246,200; 2012 248,500; 2013 252,700; 2014 255,900; 2015 261,300; 2016 263,300; 2017 265,900; 2018 273,200; 2019 277,100; 2020 266,500; 2021 270,900; 2022 282,300; 2023 286,800; 2024 284,900; 2025 281,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025281,9458,872$77,829 1.0%pub.
2024284,8638,432$74,553 0.7%pub.
2023286,7748,306$71,520 1.6%pub.
2022282,2577,639$67,575 4.2%pub.
2021270,8567,000$63,453 1.6%est. · 1.00
2020266,4746,862$61,836 3.8%est. · 1.00
2019277,1106,684$59,760 1.4%est. · 1.00
2018273,1656,478$58,360 2.8%est. · 1.00
2017265,8666,639$57,139 1.0%est. · 1.00
2016263,3196,494$56,285 0.8%est. · 1.00

† 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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing45,27816.1%1.37pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing6,6852.4%1.09pub.
313Textile Mills2590.1%0.17pub.
314Textile Product Mills1,5520.5%0.90pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing1,6110.6%1.10pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing9690.3%2.20pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing6,4182.3%0.86pub.
322Paper Manufacturing7,3892.6%1.13pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities8,9513.2%1.39pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing1,5220.5%0.75pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing22,9728.2%1.38pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing15,7735.6%1.21pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing8,4343.0%1.09pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing6,2692.2%0.93pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing32,00411.3%1.20pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing28,32910.1%1.40pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing14,2265.1%0.77pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing11,5174.1%1.43pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing45,95416.3%1.39pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing7,2732.6%1.17pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing8,5613.0%0.75pub.

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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Manufacturing in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for manufacturing in Missouri. 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.