North Carolina · NAICS 491 · Annual, 2025

Postal Service in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 491 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Postal Service (NAICS 491) employed about 20,400 people in North Carolina across roughly 862 establishments, with average annual pay of $73,420.

Employment in Postal Service in North Carolina grew 6.4% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 20,400Employment, 2025
  • 862Establishments
  • $73,420Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.06Location 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 Postal Service in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 20,100 to 20,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 20,100; 2005 20,300; 2006 20,700; 2007 20,800; 2008 21,000; 2009 20,000; 2010 18,900; 2011 18,400; 2012 18,200; 2013 17,800; 2014 17,800; 2015 18,000; 2016 18,700; 2017 19,200; 2018 19,300; 2019 19,300; 2020 19,100; 2021 19,500; 2022 19,500; 2023 19,900; 2024 20,300; 2025 20,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202520,360862$73,424 0.2%est. · 1.00
202420,323863$70,315 2.1%est. · 1.00
202319,913854$69,106 2.4%pub.
202219,453820$68,859 0.4%pub.
202119,536814$65,714 2.1%pub.
202019,128807$64,814 0.7%pub.
201919,255799$60,801 0.2%pub.
201819,288780$60,241 0.4%pub.
201719,209785$57,724 3.0%pub.
201618,654791$58,217 3.5%est. · 1.00

† 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.

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Postal Service in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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