Missouri · NAICS 517 · Annual, 2025

Telecommunications in Missouri

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 517 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Telecommunications (NAICS 517) employed about 11,400 people in Missouri across roughly 897 establishments, with average annual pay of $99,870.

Employment in Telecommunications in Missouri declined 7.4% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 50.3% above the all-industries average in Missouri. Employment fell 56.0% from 2004 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.

  • 11,400Employment, 2025
  • 897Establishments
  • $99,870Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 1.03Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Telecommunications in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 25,900 to 11,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 25,900; 2005 24,000; 2006 24,100; 2007 23,200; 2008 23,200; 2009 23,400; 2010 21,200; 2011 20,800; 2012 20,600; 2013 20,600; 2014 21,500; 2015 21,000; 2016 20,200; 2017 17,800; 2018 16,900; 2019 15,900; 2020 15,700; 2021 15,900; 2022 14,600; 2023 13,700; 2024 12,300; 2025 11,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202511,397897$99,872 7.4%pub.
202412,308902$96,249 10.3%pub.
202313,730971$89,390 6.2%pub.
202214,634967$86,964 7.7%pub.
202115,854958$82,431 1.3%est. · 1.00
202015,6531,029$85,713 1.8%est. · 1.00
201915,9351,024$80,545 5.8%est. · 1.00
201816,917991$74,859 5.1%est. · 1.00
201717,8351,017$73,703 11.8%est. · 1.00
201620,210949$73,447 3.9%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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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Telecommunications in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

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