Rhode Island · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Rhode Island

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Rhode Island, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 160 people in Rhode Island across roughly 46 establishments, with average annual pay of $47,720.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Rhode Island grew 17.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.6× as concentrated in Rhode Island as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.59). Employment fell 45.9% from 2005 to 2020 and has since recovered 20.3% of that loss. 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.

  • 160Employment, 2025
  • 46Establishments
  • $47,720Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 1.59Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 250 to 160.010020030020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 250; 2005 250; 2006 230; 2007 250; 2008 240; 2009 220; 2010 180; 2011 180; 2012 180; 2013 170; 2014 160; 2015 160; 2016 170; 2017 170; 2018 170; 2019 170; 2020 140; 2021 160; 2022 160; 2023 160; 2024 160; 2025 160.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202515946$47,717 1.8%pub.
202416250$45,370 0.8%pub.
202316151$47,931 1.1%est. · 0.97
202215951$47,677 1.2%est. · 0.96
202116154$39,841 18.5%est. · 0.98
202013649$36,866 20.1%pub.
201917047$34,351 0.9%pub.
201817245$28,771 1.6%pub.
201716946$27,906 0.7%pub.
201617048$28,619 6.7%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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