Tennessee · NAICS 482 · Annual, 2025
Rail Transportation in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 482 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Rail Transportation (NAICS 482) employed about 10 people in Tennessee across roughly 5 establishments, with average annual pay of $58,250.
Employment in Rail Transportation in Tennessee grew 27.2% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Tennessee than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.42). Employment fell 91.6% from 2004 to 2006 and has since recovered 39.1% 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.
- 10Employment, 2025
- 5Establishments
- $58,250Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.42Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 30; 2005 fewer than 10; 2006 fewer than 10; 2007 fewer than 10; 2008 10; 2009 10; 2010 fewer than 10; 2011 fewer than 10; 2012 fewer than 10; 2013 fewer than 10; 2014 fewer than 10; 2015 20; 2016 10; 2017 10; 2018 10; 2019 10; 2020 10; 2021 10; 2022 10; 2023 10; 2024 10; 2025 10.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | 5 | $58,249 | 27.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 10 | 4 | $61,572 | 14.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 12 | 4 | $60,493 | 91.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 6 | 3 | $60,632 | 3.2% | est. · 0.70 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3 | $49,271 | 9.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 6 | 3 | $45,032 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 6 | 3 | $40,606 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 6 | 3 | $37,640 | 8.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 5 | 3 | $52,353 | 41.4% | est. · 0.78 |
| 2016 | 9 | 2 | $67,795 | 51.7% | est. · 0.58 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Rail Transportation in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for rail transportation 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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