North Carolina · NAICS 523 · Annual, 2025

Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 523 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities (NAICS 523) employed about 33,400 people in North Carolina across roughly 5,724 establishments, with average annual pay of $203,270.

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in North Carolina grew 26.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 184.2% above the all-industries average in North Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 33,400. 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.

  • 33,400Employment, 2025
  • 5,724Establishments
  • $203,270Avg. annual pay
  • 0.7%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.95Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 12,600 to 33,400.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 12,600; 2005 14,100; 2006 15,500; 2007 17,200; 2008 17,800; 2009 16,800; 2010 16,900; 2011 17,700; 2012 18,900; 2013 19,900; 2014 20,600; 2015 22,200; 2016 22,800; 2017 23,300; 2018 25,200; 2019 26,000; 2020 26,500; 2021 27,800; 2022 31,100; 2023 33,000; 2024 33,000; 2025 33,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202533,4085,724$203,272 1.4%pub.
202432,9606,016$187,361 0.2%pub.
202333,0145,966$174,216 6.0%pub.
202231,1495,343$170,626 12.0%pub.
202127,8194,588$163,051 5.0%pub.
202026,4974,371$156,375 2.0%pub.
201925,9723,956$147,850 3.0%pub.
201825,2193,888$148,134 8.3%pub.
201723,2823,673$142,001 2.2%pub.
201622,7873,393$135,177 2.6%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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Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for securities, commodity contracts, and other financial investments and related activities in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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