South Carolina · NAICS 23 · Annual, 2025

Construction in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 23 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Construction (NAICS 23) employed about 124,400 people in South Carolina across roughly 16,122 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,160.

Employment in Construction in South Carolina grew 5.4% from 2024 to 2025. Employment fell 39.3% from 2006 to 2011 and has since recovered 96.1% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 124,400Employment, 2025
  • 16,122Establishments
  • $80,160Avg. annual pay
  • 5.4%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 0.99Location 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

Employment in Construction in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 114,900 to 124,400.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 114,900; 2005 117,700; 2006 126,300; 2007 124,900; 2008 111,100; 2009 88,700; 2010 79,900; 2011 76,700; 2012 77,500; 2013 79,900; 2014 82,700; 2015 86,900; 2016 94,500; 2017 100,800; 2018 104,300; 2019 107,000; 2020 103,600; 2021 104,600; 2022 108,600; 2023 112,300; 2024 118,000; 2025 124,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025124,35916,122$80,158 5.4%est. · 1.00
2024117,96115,793$74,623 5.0%pub.
2023112,35014,731$69,951 3.5%pub.
2022108,57314,058$65,391 3.8%pub.
2021104,63513,443$60,918 0.9%pub.
2020103,64713,348$57,906 3.2%pub.
2019107,02812,956$55,230 2.6%pub.
2018104,32412,124$52,634 3.5%pub.
2017100,81711,635$53,542 6.7%pub.
201694,51311,134$50,169 8.7%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of constructionLQSource
236Construction of Buildings31,08725.0%1.12pub.
237Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction19,45215.6%0.96est. · 1.00
238Specialty Trade Contractors73,82059.4%0.95pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

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Construction in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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