North Carolina · NAICS 518 · Annual, 2025

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 518 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518) employed about 12,600 people in North Carolina across roughly 2,084 establishments, with average annual pay of $156,010.

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in North Carolina grew 37.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 118.1% above the all-industries average in North Carolina. Employment fell 37.5% from 2018 to 2020 and has since recovered 62.2% 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.

  • 12,600Employment, 2025
  • 2,084Establishments
  • $156,010Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.81Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 10,300 to 12,600.05K10K15K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 10,300; 2005 14,400; 2006 10,200; 2007 10,200; 2008 9,800; 2009 9,440; 2010 9,400; 2011 10,100; 2012 10,900; 2013 11,000; 2014 11,600; 2015 12,900; 2016 13,200; 2017 13,800; 2018 14,600; 2019 9,980; 2020 9,150; 2021 10,300; 2022 11,400; 2023 11,900; 2024 12,500; 2025 12,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202512,5552,084$156,006 0.6%pub.
202412,4811,891$148,376 5.0%pub.
202311,8851,697$131,470 4.0%pub.
202211,4251,424$124,299 10.5%pub.
202110,3371,143$116,684 13.0%pub.
20209,147950$110,070 8.3%pub.
20199,979821$102,129 31.8%pub.
201814,629742$106,237 5.8%pub.
201713,825681$101,334 5.1%pub.
201613,156682$97,846 1.7%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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Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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