Rhode Island · NAICS 481 · Annual, 2025

Air Transportation in Rhode Island

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 481 in Rhode Island, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Air Transportation (NAICS 481) employed about 520 people in Rhode Island across roughly 33 establishments, with average annual pay of $69,160.

Employment in Air Transportation in Rhode Island grew 14.7% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Rhode Island than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.28). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 520. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Rhode Island are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 520Employment, 2025
  • 33Establishments
  • $69,160Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 0.28Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Air Transportation in Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 510 to 520.020040060020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 510; 2005 510; 2006 450; 2007 450; 2008 430; 2009 390; 2010 350; 2011 350; 2012 340; 2013 340; 2014 330; 2015 310; 2016 290; 2017 320; 2018 370; 2019 390; 2020 340; 2021 310; 2022 330; 2023 390; 2024 450; 2025 520.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202551633$69,161 14.7%pub.
202445034$67,275 13.9%pub.
202339529$60,596 18.1%pub.
202233425$60,428 7.5%pub.
202131123$57,165 9.8%pub.
202034523$54,374 10.9%pub.
201938726$52,523 5.7%pub.
201836625$52,893 16.1%pub.
201731522$52,969 9.4%pub.
201628820$52,920 8.6%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.

Notes

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Air Transportation in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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