New Jersey · NAICS 492 · Annual, 2025
Couriers and Messengers in New Jersey
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 492 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492) employed about 49,100 people in New Jersey across roughly 713 establishments, with average annual pay of $52,590.
Employment in Couriers and Messengers in New Jersey grew 28.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in New Jersey as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.59). Average pay in the industry is 39.0% below 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.
- 49,100Employment, 2025
- 713Establishments
- $52,590Avg. annual pay
- 1.1%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 1.59Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 21,500; 2005 22,300; 2006 23,200; 2007 23,600; 2008 23,000; 2009 21,600; 2010 21,400; 2011 21,400; 2012 21,200; 2013 21,400; 2014 22,200; 2015 23,300; 2016 24,300; 2017 26,100; 2018 27,900; 2019 30,900; 2020 38,300; 2021 44,100; 2022 47,800; 2023 48,900; 2024 49,200; 2025 49,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49,092 | 713 | $52,587 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 49,192 | 757 | $51,076 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 48,884 | 762 | $48,793 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 47,753 | 722 | $46,395 | 8.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 44,080 | 643 | $46,276 | 15.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 38,251 | 526 | $42,813 | 23.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 30,933 | 488 | $43,493 | 11.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 27,870 | 440 | $44,257 | 6.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 26,098 | 436 | $43,636 | 7.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 24,276 | 441 | $43,681 | 4.2% | 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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Couriers and Messengers in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
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