Rhode Island · NAICS 512 · Annual, 2025

Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Rhode Island

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 512 in Rhode Island, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries (NAICS 512) employed about 630 people in Rhode Island across roughly 152 establishments, with average annual pay of $53,480.

Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Rhode Island grew 14.6% from 2024 to 2025. Employment fell 53.2% from 2008 to 2020 and has since recovered 41.4% of that loss. QCEW withheld part of this figure for Rhode Island; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.98. 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.

  • 630Employment, 2025
  • 152Establishments
  • $53,480Avg. annual pay
  • 0.1%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 0.55Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.98. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 610 to 630.02505007501K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 610; 2005 580; 2006 920; 2007 530; 2008 920; 2009 650; 2010 810; 2011 690; 2012 560; 2013 600; 2014 690; 2015 750; 2016 680; 2017 690; 2018 760; 2019 830; 2020 430; 2021 590; 2022 640; 2023 600; 2024 550; 2025 630.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025633152$53,480 14.6%est. · 0.98
2024552160$55,925 7.3%pub.
2023596165$46,717 6.3%pub.
2022636152$54,610 8.6%pub.
2021586116$61,536 36.1%pub.
2020430104$41,118 48.2%pub.
201983199$44,552 10.0%pub.
201875699$40,772 9.3%pub.
2017691103$28,387 1.4%pub.
2016681167$28,950 8.5%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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Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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