New York · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in New York

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

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 385,900 people in New York across roughly 51,186 establishments, with average annual pay of $93,090.

Employment in Construction in New York grew 6.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in New York than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.73). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New York are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 385,900Employment, 2025
  • 51,186Establishments
  • $93,090Avg. annual pay
  • 3.9%Share of New York jobs
  • 0.73Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Construction in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 320,000 to 385,900.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 320,000; 2005 323,600; 2006 335,800; 2007 352,500; 2008 360,700; 2009 324,500; 2010 306,500; 2011 308,000; 2012 313,800; 2013 326,600; 2014 347,100; 2015 365,500; 2016 380,200; 2017 392,500; 2018 400,600; 2019 406,700; 2020 362,800; 2021 375,000; 2022 386,400; 2023 391,500; 2024 389,300; 2025 385,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025385,93951,186$93,088 0.9%est. · 1.00
2024389,28152,644$89,135 0.6%est. · 1.00
2023391,46953,801$85,249 1.3%est. · 1.00
2022386,44552,303$82,299 3.1%est. · 1.00
2021374,98751,256$80,186 3.4%est. · 1.00
2020362,84050,931$78,290 10.8%est. · 1.00
2019406,71250,434$75,646 1.5%est. · 1.00
2018400,62050,284$73,319 2.1%est. · 1.00
2017392,51250,068$71,320 3.3%est. · 1.00
2016380,17448,181$70,144 4.0%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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings104,06527.0%0.89est. · 1.00
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction35,5739.2%0.41pub.
238Specialty Trade Contractors246,30163.8%0.75pub.

† 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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Construction in New York, quarterly, at full depth

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