South Carolina · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 89,300 people in South Carolina across roughly 5,465 establishments, with average annual pay of $59,060.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in South Carolina grew 11.6% from 2020 to 2025. 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.

  • 89,300Employment, 2025
  • 5,465Establishments
  • $59,060Avg. annual pay
  • 3.9%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 0.79Location 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 Transportation and Warehousing in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 56,700 to 89,300.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 56,700; 2005 58,200; 2006 59,600; 2007 61,200; 2008 59,500; 2009 53,600; 2010 52,600; 2011 54,700; 2012 56,700; 2013 58,200; 2014 62,100; 2015 66,600; 2016 69,800; 2017 72,700; 2018 75,800; 2019 79,300; 2020 80,100; 2021 86,300; 2022 91,100; 2023 90,800; 2024 89,700; 2025 89,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202589,3265,465$59,064 0.5%est. · 1.00
202489,7355,583$58,467 1.2%est. · 1.00
202390,7965,272$55,406 0.3%est. · 1.00
202291,1044,926$52,933 5.6%est. · 1.00
202186,2714,428$49,793 7.8%est. · 1.00
202080,0664,187$47,731 0.9%est. · 1.00
201979,3474,033$45,755 4.6%est. · 1.00
201875,8393,766$44,760 4.3%est. · 1.00
201772,7373,652$43,372 4.2%est. · 1.00
201669,7983,494$42,359 4.8%est. · 1.00

† 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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation1,4031.6%0.16pub.
482Rail Transportation270.0%1.27est. · 0.96
483Water Transportation4310.5%0.41pub.
484Truck Transportation22,87225.6%1.04pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation3,2073.6%0.26est. · 1.00
486Pipeline Transportation1150.1%0.14est. · 0.96
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation5600.6%1.20pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation11,15912.5%0.83est. · 0.99
491Postal Service8,91410.0%0.99pub.
492Couriers and Messengers13,45915.1%0.80pub.
493Warehousing and Storage27,17930.4%0.96est. · 1.00

† 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.

Notes

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Transportation and Warehousing in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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