New Jersey · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in New Jersey

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 263,400 people in New Jersey across roughly 8,952 establishments, with average annual pay of $71,250.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in New Jersey grew 13.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in New Jersey as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.26). 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.

  • 263,400Employment, 2025
  • 8,952Establishments
  • $71,250Avg. annual pay
  • 6.2%Share of New Jersey jobs
  • 1.26Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in New Jersey, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 197,300 to 263,400.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 197,300; 2005 196,100; 2006 198,800; 2007 200,800; 2008 199,200; 2009 187,800; 2010 182,400; 2011 182,100; 2012 180,800; 2013 179,800; 2014 181,700; 2015 189,200; 2016 201,000; 2017 215,600; 2018 224,500; 2019 233,800; 2020 232,400; 2021 246,700; 2022 271,900; 2023 268,100; 2024 264,700; 2025 263,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025263,4068,952$71,246 0.5%pub.
2024264,7009,249$67,391 1.3%pub.
2023268,1409,619$64,789 1.4%pub.
2022271,8839,812$61,706 10.2%pub.
2021246,6779,343$60,547 6.1%est. · 1.00
2020232,4168,519$57,702 0.6%est. · 1.00
2019233,7578,289$56,894 4.1%est. · 1.00
2018224,4588,026$56,025 4.1%est. · 1.00
2017215,6057,630$54,775 7.2%est. · 1.00
2016201,0397,793$55,386 6.3%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation17,5906.7%1.12pub.
482Rail Transportation310.0%0.78est. · 0.62
483Water Transportation1,2750.5%0.65pub.
484Truck Transportation37,41614.2%0.92pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation29,15011.1%1.26pub.
486Pipeline Transportation5030.2%0.32est. · 0.93
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation4770.2%0.55est. · 0.96
488Support Activities for Transportation32,90712.5%1.33pub.
491Postal Service18,7267.1%1.13pub.
492Couriers and Messengers49,09218.6%1.59pub.
493Warehousing and Storage76,24028.9%1.45pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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Transportation and Warehousing in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth

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