Ohio · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025

Production occupations in Ohio

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in Ohio, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 455,300 people in Ohio worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $53,560.

Employment in production occupations in Ohio declined 20.2% from 2004 to 2025. This occupation group is 1.5× as concentrated in Ohio as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.48). Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Ohio are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 455,300Employment, 2025
  • $53,560Mean annual wage
  • 8.2%Share of Ohio jobs
  • 1.48Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in production occupations in Ohio, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 570,800 to 455,300.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 570,800; 2005 565,200; 2006 555,400; 2007 539,300; 2008 516,600; 2009 441,000; 2010 436,300; 2011 448,600; 2012 462,100; 2013 467,100; 2014 477,100; 2015 484,600; 2016 483,400; 2017 482,000; 2018 496,500; 2019 498,500; 2020 463,900; 2021 472,200; 2022 478,000; 2023 473,500; 2024 461,100; 2025 455,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
2025455,308$53,558 1.3%
2024461,138$51,746 2.6%
2023473,479$49,231 0.9%
2022478,012$47,799 1.2%
2021472,226$45,953 1.8%
2020463,895$44,378 6.9%
2019498,517$42,306 0.4%
2018496,534$41,210 3.0%
2017481,973$40,093 0.3%
2016483,410$39,177 0.3%

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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Production occupations in Ohio, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for production occupations in Ohio. 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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