South Carolina · NAICS 336 · Annual, 2025

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 336 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 336) employed about 53,400 people in South Carolina across roughly 527 establishments, with average annual pay of $86,000.

Employment in Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in South Carolina grew 11.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.0× as concentrated in South Carolina as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.02). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 53,400. 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.

  • 53,400Employment, 2025
  • 527Establishments
  • $86,000Avg. annual pay
  • 2.3%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 2.02Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 32,700 to 53,400.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 32,700; 2005 32,300; 2006 32,300; 2007 32,500; 2008 31,100; 2009 26,000; 2010 25,400; 2011 28,600; 2012 32,300; 2013 34,500; 2014 36,900; 2015 39,000; 2016 41,300; 2017 43,900; 2018 48,000; 2019 51,500; 2020 48,000; 2021 48,400; 2022 49,500; 2023 51,600; 2024 53,200; 2025 53,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202553,444527$86,004 0.4%pub.
202453,248504$82,813 3.1%pub.
202351,650453$77,449 4.4%pub.
202249,462421$71,466 2.3%pub.
202148,364373$68,561 0.9%pub.
202047,958345$66,301 6.8%pub.
201951,452334$68,152 7.2%pub.
201847,990313$66,708 9.4%pub.
201743,864301$65,677 6.3%pub.
201641,259280$65,688 5.7%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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Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for transportation equipment manufacturing in South Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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