New York · NAICS 485 · Annual, 2025

Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in New York

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 485 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation (NAICS 485) employed about 215,900 people in New York across roughly 3,559 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,810.

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in New York grew 96.6% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 4.1× as concentrated in New York as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 4.07). Average pay in the industry is 36.2% below the all-industries average in New York. 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.

  • 215,900Employment, 2025
  • 3,559Establishments
  • $63,810Avg. annual pay
  • 2.2%Share of New York jobs
  • 4.07Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 118,500 to 215,900.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 118,500; 2005 119,100; 2006 120,600; 2007 123,300; 2008 127,100; 2009 127,900; 2010 125,700; 2011 124,800; 2012 124,100; 2013 124,500; 2014 129,000; 2015 130,900; 2016 133,000; 2017 134,100; 2018 135,400; 2019 136,200; 2020 109,800; 2021 115,600; 2022 120,100; 2023 124,400; 2024 208,800; 2025 215,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025215,8893,559$63,813 3.4%pub.
2024208,7663,443$63,484 67.8%pub.
2023124,3773,236$67,888 3.6%pub.
2022120,0582,855$65,065 3.9%pub.
2021115,5952,967$62,708 5.3%est. · 1.00
2020109,8093,098$62,969 19.4%est. · 1.00
2019136,1563,141$57,965 0.6%est. · 1.00
2018135,3913,181$57,394 1.0%est. · 1.00
2017134,0943,134$54,897 0.8%pub.
2016133,0253,107$52,460 1.6%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation in New York, quarterly, at full depth

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