United States · NAICS 315 · Annual, 2025
Apparel Manufacturing in the United States
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 315 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Apparel Manufacturing (NAICS 315) employed about 78,900 people in the United States across roughly 6,302 establishments, with average annual pay of $59,650.
Employment in Apparel Manufacturing in the United States declined 11.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment fell 71.6% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 78,900Employment, 2025
- 6,302Establishments
- $59,650Avg. annual pay
- 0.1%Share of U.S. jobs
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 277,400; 2005 251,000; 2006 232,300; 2007 213,800; 2008 198,800; 2009 167,800; 2010 157,700; 2011 151,200; 2012 148,400; 2013 143,600; 2014 139,500; 2015 135,300; 2016 128,900; 2017 120,000; 2018 113,200; 2019 108,500; 2020 88,700; 2021 90,100; 2022 92,700; 2023 88,400; 2024 82,300; 2025 78,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78,916 | 6,302 | $59,651 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 82,346 | 6,341 | $57,914 | 6.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 88,406 | 6,547 | $55,697 | 4.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 92,656 | 6,569 | $53,438 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 90,134 | 6,399 | $49,704 | 1.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 88,679 | 6,419 | $46,864 | 18.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 108,524 | 6,654 | $44,454 | 4.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 113,152 | 6,790 | $42,982 | 5.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 120,028 | 6,687 | $41,667 | 6.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 128,881 | 6,789 | $39,794 | 4.7% | est. · 1.00 |
† 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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Apparel Manufacturing in the United States, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for apparel manufacturing in the United States. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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