North Carolina · NAICS 483 · Annual, 2025

Water Transportation in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 483 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Water Transportation (NAICS 483) employed about 500 people in North Carolina across roughly 44 establishments, with average annual pay of $110,440.

Employment in Water Transportation in North Carolina grew 119.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in North Carolina than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.22). Employment fell 72.4% from 2009 to 2015 and has since recovered 53.2% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 500Employment, 2025
  • 44Establishments
  • $110,440Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.22Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Water Transportation in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 310 to 500.020040060080020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 310; 2005 120; 2006 640; 2007 540; 2008 710; 2009 750; 2010 680; 2011 700; 2012 560; 2013 500; 2014 500; 2015 210; 2016 220; 2017 210; 2018 240; 2019 260; 2020 230; 2021 240; 2022 450; 2023 520; 2024 480; 2025 500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202549644$110,444 3.6%pub.
202447945$103,412 7.5%pub.
202351844$97,802 14.8%pub.
202245139$94,043 90.8%pub.
202123636$55,569 4.4%pub.
202022636$47,434 13.3%pub.
201926139$44,083 9.7%pub.
201823839$41,596 13.0%pub.
201721139$38,661 5.1%pub.
201622242$41,489 7.0%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.

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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Water Transportation in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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