New York · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025
Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in New York
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in New York, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 50,100 people in New York across roughly 4,384 establishments, with average annual pay of $113,380.
Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in New York grew 13.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.2× as concentrated in New York as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.21). 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.
- 50,100Employment, 2025
- 4,384Establishments
- $113,380Avg. annual pay
- 0.5%Share of New York jobs
- 2.21Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 44,300; 2005 46,000; 2006 45,900; 2007 45,700; 2008 47,000; 2009 46,300; 2010 53,600; 2011 55,300; 2012 56,500; 2013 58,800; 2014 58,700; 2015 58,000; 2016 58,500; 2017 60,700; 2018 59,900; 2019 60,300; 2020 44,300; 2021 55,600; 2022 60,400; 2023 48,800; 2024 52,100; 2025 50,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50,150 | 4,384 | $113,376 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 52,087 | 4,290 | $123,362 | 6.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 48,752 | 4,122 | $121,452 | 19.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 60,441 | 3,850 | $117,430 | 8.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 55,602 | 3,783 | $118,631 | 25.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 44,298 | 3,960 | $126,801 | 26.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 60,282 | 3,835 | $98,747 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 59,863 | 3,911 | $95,061 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 60,704 | 3,999 | $88,590 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 58,463 | 3,917 | $97,178 | 0.8% | 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.
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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in New York, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for motion picture and sound recording industries in New York. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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