Texas · NAICS 482 · Annual, 2025
Rail Transportation in Texas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 482 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Rail Transportation (NAICS 482) employed about 90 people in Texas across roughly 10 establishments, with average annual pay of $67,710.
Employment in Rail Transportation in Texas grew 8.4% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Texas than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.65). Employment fell 71.6% from 2008 to 2014 and has since recovered 93.0% of that loss. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 90Employment, 2025
- 10Establishments
- $67,710Avg. annual pay
- 0.0%Share of Texas jobs
- 0.65Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 60; 2005 60; 2006 50; 2007 60; 2008 90; 2009 70; 2010 60; 2011 60; 2012 70; 2013 40; 2014 30; 2015 40; 2016 70; 2017 70; 2018 50; 2019 50; 2020 60; 2021 50; 2022 50; 2023 60; 2024 80; 2025 90.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 85 | 10 | $67,710 | 8.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 79 | 11 | $72,681 | 40.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 56 | 12 | $72,876 | 12.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 50 | 11 | $58,263 | 8.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 46 | 10 | $47,105 | 27.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 63 | 10 | $51,311 | 25.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 50 | 10 | $49,439 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 49 | 10 | $40,428 | 34.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 75 | 11 | $24,282 | 11.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 67 | 10 | $43,385 | 89.0% | 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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Rail Transportation in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for rail transportation in Texas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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