United States · NAICS 518 · Annual, 2025

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 518 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (NAICS 518) employed about 488,200 people in the United States across roughly 56,101 establishments, with average annual pay of $204,890.

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in the United States grew 33.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 160.3% above the all-industries average in the United States. 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.

  • 488,200Employment, 2025
  • 56,101Establishments
  • $204,890Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of U.S. jobs

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 269,100 to 488,200.0200K400K600K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 269,100; 2005 270,000; 2006 270,500; 2007 276,400; 2008 266,200; 2009 251,700; 2010 248,000; 2011 250,500; 2012 258,700; 2013 270,200; 2014 281,700; 2015 301,600; 2016 305,900; 2017 318,200; 2018 338,400; 2019 348,900; 2020 366,500; 2021 393,600; 2022 472,000; 2023 491,200; 2024 488,500; 2025 488,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025488,18756,101$204,885 0.1%pub.
2024488,50855,374$193,743 0.5%pub.
2023491,19252,884$170,307 4.1%pub.
2022472,00046,810$158,142 19.9%pub.
2021393,60837,277$154,205 7.4%pub.
2020366,47530,226$137,054 5.0%pub.
2019348,93326,510$129,038 3.1%pub.
2018338,40523,814$123,657 6.4%pub.
2017318,16921,361$111,520 4.0%pub.
2016305,92919,607$105,272 1.5%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.

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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Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services in the United States, quarterly, at full depth

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