Utah · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Utah

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Utah, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 42,400 people in Utah across roughly 2,144 establishments, with average annual pay of $35,670.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Utah grew 54.8% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 48.5% below the all-industries average in Utah. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 42,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Utah are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 42,400Employment, 2025
  • 2,144Establishments
  • $35,670Avg. annual pay
  • 2.4%Share of Utah jobs
  • 1.25Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Utah, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 19,900 to 42,400.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 19,900; 2005 20,600; 2006 21,800; 2007 22,800; 2008 22,800; 2009 22,900; 2010 23,000; 2011 23,500; 2012 24,700; 2013 25,500; 2014 26,500; 2015 27,700; 2016 29,700; 2017 31,400; 2018 32,300; 2019 33,700; 2020 27,400; 2021 32,300; 2022 35,600; 2023 38,500; 2024 40,700; 2025 42,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202542,4292,144$35,673 4.4%pub.
202440,6542,051$33,810 5.6%pub.
202338,5041,982$31,605 8.2%pub.
202235,5861,889$32,256 10.2%pub.
202132,2811,763$28,965 17.8%est. · 0.99
202027,4071,662$29,163 18.7%est. · 0.99
201933,7231,571$26,259 4.3%est. · 0.99
201832,3231,508$25,564 3.0%est. · 1.00
201731,3751,440$25,067 5.5%est. · 1.00
201629,7331,400$23,497 7.2%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries7,83818.5%1.19pub.
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions4,2139.9%1.45pub.
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries30,37871.6%1.24pub.

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.

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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Utah, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Utah. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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