New Jersey · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in New Jersey

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 167,100 people in New Jersey across roughly 21,955 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,970.

Employment in Construction in New Jersey grew 8.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in New Jersey than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.72). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 167,100Employment, 2025
  • 21,955Establishments
  • $92,970Avg. annual pay
  • 3.9%Share of New Jersey jobs
  • 0.72Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in New Jersey, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 167,800 to 167,100.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 167,800; 2005 170,300; 2006 176,300; 2007 174,400; 2008 166,200; 2009 141,200; 2010 132,200; 2011 132,000; 2012 132,600; 2013 139,900; 2014 143,300; 2015 149,800; 2016 155,300; 2017 157,900; 2018 160,100; 2019 162,400; 2020 154,400; 2021 159,600; 2022 165,200; 2023 167,700; 2024 166,800; 2025 167,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025167,13021,955$92,966 0.2%pub.
2024166,77722,295$89,498 0.5%pub.
2023167,68922,746$86,096 1.5%pub.
2022165,15222,839$82,177 3.5%pub.
2021159,61922,970$79,920 3.4%pub.
2020154,37822,792$77,687 4.9%pub.
2019162,40422,640$74,516 1.5%pub.
2018160,07022,501$72,595 1.4%pub.
2017157,86721,761$71,016 1.7%pub.
2016155,30722,026$68,683 3.6%pub.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings37,91922.7%0.74pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction22,73413.6%0.61pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors106,47763.7%0.74pub.

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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Construction in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth

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