Pennsylvania · NAICS 54 · Annual, 2025
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 54 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54) employed about 396,100 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 55,010 establishments, with average annual pay of $128,910.
Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Pennsylvania grew 9.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 73.5% above the all-industries average in Pennsylvania. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Pennsylvania are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 396,100Employment, 2025
- 55,010Establishments
- $128,910Avg. annual pay
- 6.5%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 0.94Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 290,400; 2005 300,000; 2006 310,300; 2007 317,400; 2008 322,700; 2009 311,600; 2010 308,300; 2011 314,100; 2012 322,500; 2013 330,300; 2014 334,700; 2015 341,400; 2016 353,800; 2017 356,900; 2018 360,700; 2019 367,700; 2020 361,600; 2021 375,300; 2022 395,100; 2023 398,000; 2024 397,000; 2025 396,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 396,053 | 55,010 | $128,907 | 0.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 396,989 | 53,798 | $122,825 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 398,021 | 52,871 | $117,061 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 395,101 | 51,418 | $113,476 | 5.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 375,280 | 46,573 | $108,771 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 361,588 | 42,927 | $103,486 | 1.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 367,733 | 41,741 | $98,975 | 1.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 360,716 | 41,013 | $94,552 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 356,921 | 39,945 | $91,934 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 353,833 | 39,136 | $88,700 | 3.6% | 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.
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
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