New Jersey · NAICS 325 · Annual, 2025
Chemical Manufacturing in New Jersey
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 325 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) employed about 48,000 people in New Jersey across roughly 1,104 establishments, with average annual pay of $175,810.
Employment in Chemical Manufacturing in New Jersey grew 9.6% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.0× as concentrated in New Jersey as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.95). Average pay in the industry is 103.9% above the all-industries average in New Jersey. 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.
- 48,000Employment, 2025
- 1,104Establishments
- $175,810Avg. annual pay
- 1.1%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 1.95Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 72,200; 2005 70,100; 2006 70,400; 2007 70,700; 2008 65,300; 2009 57,400; 2010 56,000; 2011 52,800; 2012 49,100; 2013 48,600; 2014 48,800; 2015 43,200; 2016 43,800; 2017 43,300; 2018 42,500; 2019 44,600; 2020 43,800; 2021 45,000; 2022 47,300; 2023 49,300; 2024 50,200; 2025 48,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47,966 | 1,104 | $175,806 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 50,188 | 1,093 | $162,123 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 49,328 | 1,117 | $160,354 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 47,287 | 1,131 | $150,906 | 5.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 45,023 | 983 | $141,984 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 43,774 | 874 | $138,221 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2019 | 44,560 | 855 | $129,239 | 4.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 42,479 | 854 | $120,723 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 43,289 | 865 | $120,309 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 43,813 | 818 | $126,020 | 1.5% | 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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Chemical Manufacturing in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for chemical manufacturing in New Jersey. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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