South Carolina · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 41,000 people in South Carolina across roughly 2,860 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,260.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in South Carolina grew 45.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 54.1% below the all-industries average in South Carolina. QCEW withheld part of this figure for South Carolina; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.99. 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.

  • 41,000Employment, 2025
  • 2,860Establishments
  • $29,260Avg. annual pay
  • 1.8%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 0.91Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.99. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 26,700 to 41,000.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 26,700; 2005 26,700; 2006 27,600; 2007 28,800; 2008 30,400; 2009 28,800; 2010 27,900; 2011 28,500; 2012 29,000; 2013 29,500; 2014 30,200; 2015 31,300; 2016 32,000; 2017 32,900; 2018 34,600; 2019 36,400; 2020 28,300; 2021 32,000; 2022 35,300; 2023 38,800; 2024 40,300; 2025 41,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202541,0212,860$29,260 1.8%est. · 0.99
202440,2752,800$28,341 3.8%est. · 1.00
202338,7962,618$27,428 10.0%est. · 1.00
202235,2732,475$26,293 10.3%est. · 1.00
202131,9682,296$24,099 13.1%est. · 1.00
202028,2562,231$23,601 22.3%est. · 1.00
201936,3622,151$20,792 5.1%est. · 1.00
201834,6002,020$20,103 5.2%est. · 1.00
201732,9001,908$20,153 2.9%pub.
201631,9571,877$19,869 2.1%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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries6,22815.2%0.71est. · 0.99
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions2,6916.6%0.70est. · 0.89
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries32,10278.3%0.98pub.

† 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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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation 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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