North Carolina · SOC 37-0000 · Annual, 2025

Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations in North Carolina

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 37-0000 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 138,500 people in North Carolina worked in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (SOC 37-0000), with an average annual wage of $40,750.

Employment in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations in North Carolina grew 11.6% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 43.0% below the all-occupations average in North Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 138,500. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.

  • 138,500Employment, 2025
  • $40,750Mean annual wage
  • 2.8%Share of North Carolina jobs
  • 0.96Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations in North Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 104,900 to 138,500.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 104,900; 2005 107,200; 2006 111,500; 2007 116,100; 2008 116,800; 2009 110,800; 2010 110,900; 2011 114,200; 2012 117,100; 2013 119,900; 2014 123,300; 2015 126,800; 2016 129,000; 2017 130,900; 2018 131,600; 2019 132,100; 2020 124,100; 2021 126,600; 2022 132,000; 2023 134,100; 2024 136,700; 2025 138,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025138,502$40,746 1.4%
2024136,659$39,267 1.9%
2023134,097$37,200 1.6%
2022131,973$35,829 4.3%
2021126,553$33,047 2.0%
2020124,120$31,228 6.0%
2019132,074$28,791 0.4%
2018131,613$27,992 0.5%
2017130,915$26,841 1.5%
2016129,048$26,087 1.8%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations in North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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