Tennessee · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Tennessee
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 38,400 people in Tennessee worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $72,010.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Tennessee grew 31.2% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 38,400Employment, 2025
- $72,010Mean annual wage
- 1.2%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.89Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 30,200; 2005 30,700; 2006 30,800; 2007 30,400; 2008 29,900; 2009 27,900; 2010 27,600; 2011 27,400; 2012 27,700; 2013 27,900; 2014 28,400; 2015 29,100; 2016 30,400; 2017 30,200; 2018 30,400; 2019 31,900; 2020 29,300; 2021 32,000; 2022 35,600; 2023 37,700; 2024 39,200; 2025 38,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38,385 | $72,014 | 2.1% |
| 2024 | 39,223 | $71,275 | 4.0% |
| 2023 | 37,728 | $68,250 | 5.9% |
| 2022 | 35,611 | $65,842 | 11.4% |
| 2021 | 31,972 | $64,231 | 9.2% |
| 2020 | 29,269 | $58,539 | 8.3% |
| 2019 | 31,905 | $60,170 | 4.8% |
| 2018 | 30,436 | $61,698 | 0.9% |
| 2017 | 30,175 | $60,482 | 0.6% |
| 2016 | 30,368 | $56,109 | 4.5% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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