Virginia · NAICS 48-49 · Annual, 2025

Transportation and Warehousing in Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 48-49 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Transportation and Warehousing (NAICS 48-49) employed about 191,700 people in Virginia across roughly 7,485 establishments, with average annual pay of $65,020.

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Virginia grew 8.6% from 2024 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 191,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 191,700Employment, 2025
  • 7,485Establishments
  • $65,020Avg. annual pay
  • 4.6%Share of Virginia jobs
  • 0.95Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Transportation and Warehousing in Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 128,000 to 191,700.050K100K150K200K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 128,000; 2005 131,200; 2006 129,800; 2007 130,000; 2008 128,400; 2009 121,100; 2010 120,500; 2011 121,000; 2012 121,700; 2013 122,100; 2014 125,300; 2015 132,400; 2016 137,000; 2017 140,100; 2018 143,300; 2019 150,100; 2020 151,600; 2021 156,800; 2022 165,000; 2023 171,500; 2024 176,600; 2025 191,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025191,6897,485$65,016 8.6%pub.
2024176,5937,630$66,502 3.0%pub.
2023171,4607,850$64,909 3.9%pub.
2022165,0307,783$61,695 5.2%pub.
2021156,8066,976$57,455 3.4%est. · 1.00
2020151,6356,542$55,516 1.0%est. · 1.00
2019150,0806,494$54,185 4.7%est. · 1.00
2018143,3276,343$54,091 2.3%est. · 1.00
2017140,1336,250$52,339 2.3%est. · 1.00
2016136,9596,262$51,121 3.5%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 · 11 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of transportation and warehousingLQSource
481Air Transportation16,4408.6%1.08pub.
482Rail Transportation270.0%0.69est. · 0.65
483Water Transportation1,1840.6%0.63pub.
484Truck Transportation29,79615.5%0.76pub.
485Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation14,2587.4%0.64pub.
486Pipeline Transportation5510.3%0.36pub.
487Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation3310.2%0.40pub.
488Support Activities for Transportation24,73012.9%1.03pub.
491Postal Service15,2658.0%0.95est. · 1.00
492Couriers and Messengers36,74019.2%1.23pub.
493Warehousing and Storage52,36727.3%1.03pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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Transportation and Warehousing in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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