Tennessee · NAICS 51 · Annual, 2025

Information in Tennessee

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 51 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Information (NAICS 51) employed about 54,200 people in Tennessee across roughly 8,896 establishments, with average annual pay of $121,860.

Employment in Information in Tennessee grew 24.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 73.2% 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.

  • 54,200Employment, 2025
  • 8,896Establishments
  • $121,860Avg. annual pay
  • 1.7%Share of Tennessee jobs
  • 0.87Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Information in Tennessee, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 49,700 to 54,200.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 49,700; 2005 49,900; 2006 50,000; 2007 49,700; 2008 50,300; 2009 47,200; 2010 44,900; 2011 43,600; 2012 43,100; 2013 43,900; 2014 43,800; 2015 44,000; 2016 45,400; 2017 46,100; 2018 45,400; 2019 45,600; 2020 43,500; 2021 47,000; 2022 55,000; 2023 56,400; 2024 55,200; 2025 54,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202554,2058,896$121,862 1.8%pub.
202455,20310,194$114,539 2.1%pub.
202356,3609,614$104,582 2.5%pub.
202254,9898,297$97,279 16.9%est. · 1.00
202147,0236,212$90,803 8.0%est. · 1.00
202043,5394,557$80,605 4.6%est. · 1.00
201945,6404,013$74,772 0.4%pub.
201845,4373,551$73,230 1.4%pub.
201746,0603,292$67,868 1.4%pub.
201645,4103,124$63,902 3.1%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 6 shown

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Information in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth

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