Montana · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Montana

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Montana, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 100 people in Montana across roughly 19 establishments, with average annual pay of $41,720.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Montana grew 111.4% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 37.8% from 2019 to 2020 and has since recovered 183.4% 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.

  • 100Employment, 2025
  • 19Establishments
  • $41,720Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Montana jobs
  • 0.98Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Montana, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 40 to 100.05010015020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 40; 2005 40; 2006 40; 2007 40; 2008 40; 2009 40; 2010 50; 2011 50; 2012 40; 2013 40; 2014 50; 2015 50; 2016 60; 2017 70; 2018 70; 2019 80; 2020 50; 2021 70; 2022 90; 2023 100; 2024 100; 2025 100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202510119$41,716 1.9%pub.
20249918$37,982 2.0%pub.
202310119$35,048 13.5%pub.
20228918$35,585 21.3%pub.
20217317$33,812 53.7%est. · 0.85
20204814$33,085 37.8%est. · 0.72
20197713$29,602 4.9%est. · 0.87
20187313$28,731 11.5%est. · 0.86
20176612$30,203 5.9%pub.
20166212$25,567 22.9%est. · 0.96

† 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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Montana, quarterly, at full depth

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