Tennessee · NAICS 486 · Annual, 2025
Pipeline Transportation in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 486 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Pipeline Transportation (NAICS 486) employed about 530 people in Tennessee across roughly 53 establishments, with average annual pay of $125,920.
Employment in Pipeline Transportation in Tennessee declined 21.0% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Tennessee than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.44). Average pay in the industry is 78.9% 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.
- 530Employment, 2025
- 53Establishments
- $125,920Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.44Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 660; 2005 660; 2006 660; 2007 640; 2008 680; 2009 640; 2010 620; 2011 620; 2012 590; 2013 570; 2014 620; 2015 650; 2016 650; 2017 640; 2018 600; 2019 590; 2020 520; 2021 500; 2022 500; 2023 500; 2024 530; 2025 530.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 525 | 53 | $125,919 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 534 | 51 | $123,743 | 5.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 504 | 47 | $116,521 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 501 | 50 | $109,166 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 502 | 49 | $107,117 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 521 | 51 | $110,756 | 12.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 595 | 54 | $103,284 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 598 | 54 | $95,880 | 5.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 635 | 53 | $91,264 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 647 | 51 | $90,766 | 0.1% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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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Pipeline Transportation in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for pipeline 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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