Missouri · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Missouri

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 128,000 people in Missouri across roughly 7,416 establishments, with average annual pay of $60,380.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Missouri grew 8.5% 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.

  • 128,000Employment, 2025
  • 7,416Establishments
  • $60,380Avg. annual pay
  • 4.4%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 0.91Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 112,100 to 128,000.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 112,100; 2005 111,600; 2006 114,400; 2007 115,700; 2008 112,900; 2009 106,300; 2010 101,400; 2011 101,600; 2012 102,900; 2013 105,000; 2014 106,900; 2015 110,300; 2016 112,200; 2017 113,700; 2018 114,800; 2019 118,600; 2020 118,000; 2021 125,700; 2022 130,300; 2023 130,000; 2024 129,600; 2025 128,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025127,9747,416$60,385 1.2%pub.
2024129,5787,351$58,284 0.3%pub.
2023129,9637,710$56,765 0.3%pub.
2022130,2837,469$54,977 3.6%pub.
2021125,7396,991$52,013 6.6%pub.
2020117,9686,800$50,286 0.5%pub.
2019118,5586,574$48,560 3.3%pub.
2018114,7606,296$47,999 0.9%pub.
2017113,6856,479$46,648 1.4%pub.
2016112,1666,253$46,041 1.7%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation3,6222.8%0.34pub.
482Rail Transportation1110.1%4.14pub.
483Water Transportation5720.4%0.43pub.
484Truck Transportation37,92829.6%1.38pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation12,0029.4%0.77pub.
486Pipeline Transportation3440.3%0.32pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation4600.4%0.79pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation14,80711.6%0.89pub.
491Postal Service14,42811.3%1.29pub.
492Couriers and Messengers16,50712.9%0.79pub.
493Warehousing and Storage27,19321.3%0.76pub.

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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Transportation and Warehousing in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

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