Missouri · NAICS 54 · Annual, 2025

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Missouri

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 54 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54) employed about 165,000 people in Missouri across roughly 29,639 establishments, with average annual pay of $107,330.

Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Missouri grew 41.5% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.5% above the all-industries average in Missouri. 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.

  • 165,000Employment, 2025
  • 29,639Establishments
  • $107,330Avg. annual pay
  • 5.7%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 0.82Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 116,600 to 165,000.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 116,600; 2005 121,600; 2006 126,500; 2007 129,500; 2008 132,400; 2009 126,700; 2010 123,500; 2011 126,100; 2012 132,600; 2013 134,800; 2014 138,000; 2015 147,800; 2016 154,800; 2017 160,500; 2018 163,900; 2019 164,100; 2020 163,200; 2021 169,000; 2022 173,000; 2023 171,900; 2024 167,300; 2025 165,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025165,02129,639$107,330 1.4%pub.
2024167,31428,317$102,792 2.7%pub.
2023171,92529,500$98,200 0.6%pub.
2022172,96627,504$94,596 2.4%pub.
2021168,99224,658$90,065 3.6%est. · 1.00
2020163,17023,440$84,897 0.6%est. · 1.00
2019164,14022,119$81,289 0.1%est. · 1.00
2018163,92620,745$77,728 2.1%est. · 1.00
2017160,51421,188$76,551 3.7%est. · 1.00
2016154,77519,589$74,715 4.7%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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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

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