North Carolina · NAICS 922 · Annual, 2025

Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in North Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 922 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (NAICS 922) employed about 31,000 people in North Carolina across roughly 558 establishments, with average annual pay of $73,690.

Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in North Carolina declined 5.4% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in North Carolina than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.50). 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.

  • 31,000Employment, 2025
  • 558Establishments
  • $73,690Avg. annual pay
  • 0.6%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.50Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 32,800 to 31,000.010K20K30K40K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 32,800; 2005 33,000; 2006 33,300; 2007 34,400; 2008 35,100; 2009 35,800; 2010 35,500; 2011 35,300; 2012 34,600; 2013 35,200; 2014 33,600; 2015 32,700; 2016 32,800; 2017 32,600; 2018 32,100; 2019 31,800; 2020 32,400; 2021 31,900; 2022 30,000; 2023 29,400; 2024 30,200; 2025 31,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202531,002558$73,695 2.8%pub.
202430,166485$74,438 2.7%pub.
202329,382439$69,484 2.0%pub.
202229,984359$65,532 5.9%pub.
202131,865335$59,519 1.8%pub.
202032,434322$58,402 1.8%pub.
201931,845320$55,614 0.7%pub.
201832,052323$53,774 1.7%pub.
201732,601327$51,237 0.6%pub.
201632,784345$49,404 0.3%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.

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Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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