Tennessee · NAICS 31-33 · Annual, 2025

Manufacturing in Tennessee

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 31-33 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Manufacturing (NAICS 31-33) employed about 354,300 people in Tennessee across roughly 9,306 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,790.

Employment in Manufacturing in Tennessee grew 5.8% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.34). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 354,300Employment, 2025
  • 9,306Establishments
  • $78,790Avg. annual pay
  • 10.9%Share of Tennessee jobs
  • 1.34Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Manufacturing in Tennessee, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 410,900 to 354,300.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 410,900; 2005 408,300; 2006 399,200; 2007 380,100; 2008 360,300; 2009 309,400; 2010 298,400; 2011 303,900; 2012 313,600; 2013 318,600; 2014 324,900; 2015 332,500; 2016 342,700; 2017 348,500; 2018 351,100; 2019 355,000; 2020 335,000; 2021 349,100; 2022 364,300; 2023 364,000; 2024 362,500; 2025 354,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025354,3299,306$78,790 2.3%pub.
2024362,5149,658$75,226 0.4%pub.
2023363,9649,262$72,009 0.1%pub.
2022364,2658,704$68,884 4.3%pub.
2021349,0748,186$65,214 4.2%est. · 1.00
2020335,0337,622$63,121 5.6%est. · 1.00
2019355,0287,274$60,305 1.1%est. · 1.00
2018351,1407,053$59,495 0.8%est. · 1.00
2017348,4876,837$59,525 1.7%est. · 1.00
2016342,6576,634$58,143 3.1%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 · 21 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of manufacturingLQSource
311Food Manufacturing40,30211.4%1.09pub.
312Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing6,7581.9%0.98pub.
313Textile Mills2,3630.7%1.39pub.
314Textile Product Mills2,0810.6%1.07pub.
315Apparel Manufacturing2,7940.8%1.69pub.
316Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing2310.1%0.47pub.
321Wood Product Manufacturing12,6733.6%1.51pub.
322Paper Manufacturing12,8283.6%1.75pub.
323Printing and Related Support Activities7,4942.1%1.03pub.
324Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing1,0460.3%0.46pub.
325Chemical Manufacturing27,2007.7%1.46pub.
326Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing23,7696.7%1.62pub.
327Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing14,4354.1%1.67pub.
331Primary Metal Manufacturing11,0733.1%1.46pub.
332Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing42,07111.9%1.41pub.
333Machinery Manufacturing24,6327.0%1.08pub.
334Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing8,0182.3%0.38pub.
335Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing22,5406.4%2.49pub.
336Transportation Equipment Manufacturing69,01419.5%1.86pub.
337Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing8,8982.5%1.28pub.
339Miscellaneous Manufacturing14,1094.0%1.10pub.

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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Manufacturing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth

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

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.