Tennessee · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025
Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 400 people in Tennessee across roughly 37 establishments, with average annual pay of $42,140.
Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Tennessee declined 17.5% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 40.1% below the all-industries average in Tennessee. Employment fell 64.8% from 2007 to 2012 and has since recovered 83.7% 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.
- 400Employment, 2025
- 37Establishments
- $42,140Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.61Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 360; 2005 360; 2006 370; 2007 450; 2008 260; 2009 240; 2010 180; 2011 160; 2012 160; 2013 290; 2014 260; 2015 280; 2016 600; 2017 640; 2018 680; 2019 750; 2020 430; 2021 380; 2022 490; 2023 450; 2024 490; 2025 400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 401 | 37 | $42,137 | 17.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 486 | 40 | $39,958 | 7.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 452 | 36 | $40,599 | 7.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 491 | 37 | $36,185 | 30.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 377 | 35 | $27,916 | 13.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 434 | 34 | $30,767 | 42.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 748 | 32 | $32,306 | 9.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 684 | 26 | $30,453 | 6.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 640 | 25 | $28,369 | 7.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 598 | 26 | $26,840 | 114.4% | 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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for scenic and sightseeing 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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