Texas · NAICS 486 · Annual, 2025
Pipeline Transportation in Texas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 486 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Pipeline Transportation (NAICS 486) employed about 24,100 people in Texas across roughly 882 establishments, with average annual pay of $194,020.
Employment in Pipeline Transportation in Texas grew 24.1% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 4.7× as concentrated in Texas as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 4.67). Average pay in the industry is 148.8% above the all-industries average in Texas. 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.
- 24,100Employment, 2025
- 882Establishments
- $194,020Avg. annual pay
- 0.2%Share of Texas jobs
- 4.67Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,400; 2005 13,300; 2006 13,700; 2007 13,900; 2008 13,400; 2009 14,000; 2010 15,900; 2011 16,300; 2012 16,800; 2013 16,300; 2014 17,500; 2015 18,100; 2016 18,800; 2017 19,100; 2018 18,900; 2019 19,500; 2020 19,500; 2021 19,300; 2022 19,600; 2023 21,100; 2024 23,000; 2025 24,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24,133 | 882 | $194,024 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 23,022 | 870 | $188,865 | 9.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 21,082 | 792 | $186,525 | 7.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 19,591 | 759 | $172,792 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 19,340 | 768 | $159,714 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 19,451 | 764 | $158,509 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 19,457 | 746 | $165,950 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 18,931 | 643 | $158,009 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 19,078 | 646 | $158,387 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 18,791 | 618 | $150,191 | 3.6% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Pipeline Transportation in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for pipeline 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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