North Carolina · NAICS 921 · Annual, 2025

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 921 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (NAICS 921) employed about 167,600 people in North Carolina across roughly 856 establishments, with average annual pay of $62,300.

Employment in Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in North Carolina grew 10.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in North Carolina as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.60). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 167,600. 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.

  • 167,600Employment, 2025
  • 856Establishments
  • $62,300Avg. annual pay
  • 3.4%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 1.60Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 126,800 to 167,600.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 126,800; 2005 128,900; 2006 132,200; 2007 135,500; 2008 140,300; 2009 140,800; 2010 140,000; 2011 138,500; 2012 139,100; 2013 139,800; 2014 141,700; 2015 144,400; 2016 147,500; 2017 148,700; 2018 151,600; 2019 153,500; 2020 151,700; 2021 152,000; 2022 154,500; 2023 158,400; 2024 166,800; 2025 167,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025167,599856$62,296 0.5%pub.
2024166,766781$58,758 5.3%pub.
2023158,426776$56,175 2.5%pub.
2022154,512771$52,747 1.7%pub.
2021151,975765$49,909 0.2%pub.
2020151,664763$48,644 1.2%pub.
2019153,535777$45,667 1.3%pub.
2018151,599784$44,273 2.0%pub.
2017148,690791$42,873 0.8%pub.
2016147,486780$41,617 2.2%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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Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for executive, legislative, and other general government support in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.