Montana · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025
Air Transportation in Montana
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Montana, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 830 people in Montana across roughly 83 establishments, with average annual pay of $67,670.
Employment in Air Transportation in Montana grew 52.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Montana than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.44). Employment fell 39.6% from 2007 to 2013 and has since recovered 97.8% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Montana are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 830Employment, 2025
- 83Establishments
- $67,670Avg. annual pay
- 0.2%Share of Montana jobs
- 0.44Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 750; 2005 790; 2006 790; 2007 840; 2008 640; 2009 550; 2010 540; 2011 560; 2012 560; 2013 510; 2014 510; 2015 540; 2016 580; 2017 650; 2018 780; 2019 820; 2020 550; 2021 610; 2022 680; 2023 780; 2024 810; 2025 830.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 832 | 83 | $67,667 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 811 | 87 | $66,539 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 784 | 85 | $63,155 | 15.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 680 | 71 | $57,624 | 12.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 606 | 58 | $50,337 | 11.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 545 | 56 | $46,714 | 33.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 820 | 55 | $38,812 | 4.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 782 | 61 | $38,018 | 19.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 652 | 53 | $36,121 | 12.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 579 | 47 | $36,477 | 7.1% | pub. |
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.
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Air Transportation in Montana, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for air transportation in Montana. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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