South Carolina · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in South Carolina
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 21,900 people in South Carolina worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $66,040.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in South Carolina grew 22.0% from 2020 to 2025. This occupation group is less concentrated in South Carolina than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.71). Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 21,900Employment, 2025
- $66,040Mean annual wage
- 0.9%Share of South Carolina jobs
- 0.71Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,700; 2005 16,000; 2006 16,300; 2007 16,800; 2008 17,000; 2009 15,700; 2010 15,400; 2011 15,500; 2012 15,700; 2013 16,000; 2014 16,400; 2015 16,600; 2016 17,000; 2017 17,200; 2018 18,200; 2019 19,200; 2020 18,000; 2021 19,000; 2022 20,800; 2023 21,300; 2024 21,900; 2025 21,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21,923 | $66,044 | 0.1% |
| 2024 | 21,950 | $63,148 | 2.9% |
| 2023 | 21,331 | $58,830 | 2.8% |
| 2022 | 20,758 | $57,783 | 9.1% |
| 2021 | 19,028 | $55,296 | 5.9% |
| 2020 | 17,969 | $53,260 | 6.4% |
| 2019 | 19,199 | $50,350 | 5.7% |
| 2018 | 18,159 | $48,053 | 5.7% |
| 2017 | 17,177 | $47,188 | 1.2% |
| 2016 | 16,970 | $44,924 | 2.0% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in South Carolina. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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