South Carolina · NAICS 54 · Annual, 2025
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in South Carolina
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 54 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services (NAICS 54) employed about 139,000 people in South Carolina across roughly 33,381 establishments, with average annual pay of $103,090.
Employment in Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in South Carolina grew 34.8% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.7% above the all-industries average in South Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 139,000. 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.
- 139,000Employment, 2025
- 33,381Establishments
- $103,090Avg. annual pay
- 6.0%Share of South Carolina jobs
- 0.86Location 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
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 65,200; 2005 67,000; 2006 71,800; 2007 75,200; 2008 78,000; 2009 74,600; 2010 76,100; 2011 80,700; 2012 81,100; 2013 83,500; 2014 86,600; 2015 90,000; 2016 95,100; 2017 97,900; 2018 103,600; 2019 104,400; 2020 103,100; 2021 107,600; 2022 120,400; 2023 129,900; 2024 135,200; 2025 139,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 138,976 | 33,381 | $103,089 | 2.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 135,190 | 33,251 | $97,553 | 4.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 129,922 | 30,110 | $92,096 | 7.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 120,446 | 26,741 | $88,215 | 11.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 107,587 | 22,673 | $82,324 | 4.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 103,110 | 20,577 | $78,405 | 1.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 104,412 | 19,440 | $73,357 | 0.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 103,562 | 17,872 | $70,651 | 5.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 97,900 | 17,053 | $69,854 | 3.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 95,086 | 15,980 | $67,870 | 5.6% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
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