Tennessee · NAICS 492 · Annual, 2025
Couriers and Messengers in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 492 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Couriers and Messengers (NAICS 492) employed about 59,000 people in Tennessee across roughly 489 establishments, with average annual pay of $78,620.
Employment in Couriers and Messengers in Tennessee grew 30.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.5× as concentrated in Tennessee as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.51). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 59,000. 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.
- 59,000Employment, 2025
- 489Establishments
- $78,620Avg. annual pay
- 1.8%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 2.51Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 36,300; 2005 35,700; 2006 37,200; 2007 36,900; 2008 36,300; 2009 35,400; 2010 34,600; 2011 35,000; 2012 35,200; 2013 35,400; 2014 35,600; 2015 36,700; 2016 38,200; 2017 38,900; 2018 40,900; 2019 42,700; 2020 45,100; 2021 51,300; 2022 52,900; 2023 53,600; 2024 58,400; 2025 59,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58,961 | 489 | $78,619 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2024 | 58,431 | 545 | $82,663 | 8.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 53,636 | 531 | $77,758 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 52,892 | 498 | $81,686 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 51,308 | 449 | $85,748 | 13.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 45,102 | 390 | $81,152 | 5.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 42,710 | 370 | $75,919 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 40,947 | 342 | $74,539 | 5.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 38,860 | 328 | $73,650 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 38,167 | 335 | $72,019 | 4.0% | 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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Couriers and Messengers in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for couriers and messengers 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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