Tennessee · NAICS 325 · Annual, 2025
Chemical Manufacturing in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 325 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Chemical Manufacturing (NAICS 325) employed about 27,200 people in Tennessee across roughly 713 establishments, with average annual pay of $101,400.
Employment in Chemical Manufacturing in Tennessee grew 6.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.46). Average pay in the industry is 44.1% above the all-industries average in Tennessee. 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.
- 27,200Employment, 2025
- 713Establishments
- $101,400Avg. annual pay
- 0.8%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.46Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 27,400; 2005 27,100; 2006 26,000; 2007 26,500; 2008 27,500; 2009 25,800; 2010 25,300; 2011 24,700; 2012 24,400; 2013 24,900; 2014 25,200; 2015 25,400; 2016 25,400; 2017 24,900; 2018 25,600; 2019 26,000; 2020 25,600; 2021 26,200; 2022 26,500; 2023 26,800; 2024 27,100; 2025 27,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27,200 | 713 | $101,404 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 27,079 | 744 | $95,831 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 26,759 | 686 | $91,546 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2022 | 26,499 | 619 | $92,856 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 26,165 | 569 | $87,949 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 25,598 | 499 | $83,043 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 25,954 | 447 | $81,031 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 25,587 | 421 | $82,168 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 24,893 | 386 | $81,052 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 25,374 | 359 | $79,152 | 0.1% | pub. |
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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Chemical Manufacturing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for chemical manufacturing in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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