Virginia · NAICS 487 · Annual, 2025

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 487 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation (NAICS 487) employed about 330 people in Virginia across roughly 38 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,330.

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Virginia grew 71.0% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Virginia than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.40). Average pay in the industry is 63.4% below the all-industries average in Virginia. 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.

  • 330Employment, 2025
  • 38Establishments
  • $29,330Avg. annual pay
  • 0.0%Share of Virginia jobs
  • 0.40Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 370 to 330.020040060020042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 370; 2005 410; 2006 420; 2007 410; 2008 410; 2009 390; 2010 380; 2011 340; 2012 350; 2013 340; 2014 350; 2015 320; 2016 320; 2017 330; 2018 380; 2019 360; 2020 190; 2021 230; 2022 290; 2023 300; 2024 350; 2025 330.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202533138$29,332 4.8%pub.
202434838$28,643 15.4%pub.
202330136$28,544 3.7%est. · 0.95
202229038$27,615 24.5%est. · 1.00
202123334$27,724 20.5%est. · 0.92
202019432$28,543 45.8%est. · 0.92
201935735$27,147 5.4%est. · 0.98
201837737$25,914 13.3%est. · 0.98
201733336$24,414 4.0%est. · 0.97
201632039$23,934 0.7%est. · 0.98

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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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Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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