Virginia · SOC 51-0000 · Annual, 2025
Production occupations in Virginia
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 51-0000 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 162,900 people in Virginia worked in production occupations (SOC 51-0000), with an average annual wage of $56,240.
Employment in production occupations in Virginia declined 23.4% from 2004 to 2025. This occupation group is less concentrated in Virginia than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.71). Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 162,900Employment, 2025
- $56,240Mean annual wage
- 3.9%Share of Virginia jobs
- 0.71Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 212,700; 2005 212,200; 2006 207,700; 2007 202,200; 2008 192,900; 2009 174,300; 2010 169,400; 2011 170,300; 2012 171,100; 2013 171,100; 2014 171,300; 2015 173,700; 2016 173,900; 2017 174,800; 2018 176,700; 2019 174,900; 2020 164,000; 2021 165,800; 2022 169,700; 2023 167,100; 2024 166,100; 2025 162,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 162,934 | $56,235 | 1.9% |
| 2024 | 166,145 | $53,042 | 0.6% |
| 2023 | 167,131 | $51,391 | 1.5% |
| 2022 | 169,701 | $49,216 | 2.4% |
| 2021 | 165,787 | $46,505 | 1.1% |
| 2020 | 163,976 | $44,727 | 6.2% |
| 2019 | 174,887 | $42,067 | 1.0% |
| 2018 | 176,653 | $40,936 | 1.1% |
| 2017 | 174,823 | $39,505 | 0.5% |
| 2016 | 173,885 | $38,729 | 0.1% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
Notes
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Production occupations in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for production occupations in Virginia. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.