North Carolina · NAICS 711 · Annual, 2025

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 711 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (NAICS 711) employed about 18,800 people in North Carolina across roughly 2,142 establishments, with average annual pay of $96,930.

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in North Carolina grew 75.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 35.5% above the all-industries average in North Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 18,800. 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.

  • 18,800Employment, 2025
  • 2,142Establishments
  • $96,930Avg. annual pay
  • 0.4%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.00Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 10,400 to 18,800.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 10,400; 2005 9,920; 2006 11,700; 2007 12,400; 2008 12,800; 2009 12,200; 2010 12,200; 2011 12,400; 2012 13,400; 2013 14,300; 2014 14,900; 2015 15,500; 2016 15,500; 2017 15,900; 2018 15,900; 2019 16,500; 2020 10,700; 2021 12,600; 2022 15,100; 2023 16,600; 2024 18,100; 2025 18,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202518,7742,142$96,934 3.7%pub.
202418,1011,994$94,372 9.0%pub.
202316,6121,884$91,132 9.8%pub.
202215,1231,677$90,582 20.2%pub.
202112,5811,449$94,335 17.7%est. · 0.98
202010,6921,386$98,331 35.4%est. · 0.98
201916,5441,329$75,858 3.9%est. · 0.98
201815,9251,297$76,652 0.0%est. · 0.97
201715,9201,262$74,140 2.5%est. · 0.98
201615,5271,256$73,511 0.1%est. · 0.99

† 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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Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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