Tennessee · NAICS 336 · Annual, 2025
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 336 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Transportation Equipment Manufacturing (NAICS 336) employed about 69,000 people in Tennessee across roughly 610 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,160.
Employment in Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Tennessee declined 7.3% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is 1.9× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.86). Employment fell 39.3% from 2005 to 2010 and has since recovered 113.3% of that loss. 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.
- 69,000Employment, 2025
- 610Establishments
- $80,160Avg. annual pay
- 2.1%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.86Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 64,000; 2005 65,600; 2006 64,300; 2007 59,600; 2008 52,300; 2009 40,300; 2010 39,900; 2011 45,400; 2012 53,600; 2013 59,400; 2014 63,800; 2015 66,700; 2016 71,900; 2017 74,500; 2018 74,200; 2019 75,100; 2020 65,500; 2021 68,800; 2022 72,900; 2023 74,600; 2024 74,400; 2025 69,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 69,014 | 610 | $80,160 | 7.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 74,431 | 646 | $76,151 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 74,609 | 603 | $73,878 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 72,892 | 559 | $69,362 | 5.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 68,801 | 520 | $64,455 | 5.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 65,517 | 464 | $63,721 | 12.8% | pub. |
| 2019 | 75,120 | 433 | $62,230 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 74,211 | 417 | $61,750 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 74,505 | 399 | $59,784 | 3.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 71,931 | 383 | $59,765 | 7.9% | 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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Transportation Equipment Manufacturing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for transportation equipment 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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