New Jersey · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025
Production occupations in New Jersey
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 167,000 people in New Jersey worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $57,650.
Employment in production occupations in New Jersey grew 6.7% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is less concentrated in New Jersey than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.70). Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 167,000Employment, 2025
- $57,650Mean annual wage
- 3.9%Share of New Jersey jobs
- 0.70Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 208,600; 2005 204,100; 2006 201,400; 2007 196,300; 2008 189,200; 2009 170,600; 2010 166,500; 2011 165,600; 2012 164,400; 2013 164,500; 2014 165,200; 2015 164,500; 2016 166,900; 2017 166,600; 2018 169,300; 2019 169,700; 2020 156,500; 2021 160,000; 2022 166,800; 2023 167,600; 2024 167,800; 2025 167,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 166,993 | $57,654 | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 167,751 | $55,711 | 0.1% |
| 2023 | 167,561 | $53,999 | 0.4% |
| 2022 | 166,809 | $52,490 | 4.3% |
| 2021 | 160,003 | $51,417 | 2.3% |
| 2020 | 156,455 | $50,370 | 7.8% |
| 2019 | 169,674 | $46,576 | 0.2% |
| 2018 | 169,287 | $45,404 | 1.6% |
| 2017 | 166,621 | $44,413 | 0.2% |
| 2016 | 166,926 | $43,825 | 1.5% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Production occupations in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for production occupations in New Jersey. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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