Washington · NAICS 531 · Annual, 2025
Real Estate in Washington
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 531 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Real Estate (NAICS 531) employed about 50,500 people in Washington across roughly 7,331 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,430.
Employment in Real Estate in Washington grew 8.8% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 50,500. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Washington are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 50,500Employment, 2025
- 7,331Establishments
- $82,430Avg. annual pay
- 1.4%Share of Washington jobs
- 1.18Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 36,500; 2005 36,700; 2006 38,500; 2007 39,100; 2008 38,800; 2009 37,500; 2010 36,800; 2011 37,000; 2012 37,800; 2013 39,200; 2014 40,400; 2015 41,600; 2016 42,100; 2017 43,600; 2018 45,800; 2019 47,500; 2020 46,400; 2021 47,600; 2022 49,800; 2023 49,900; 2024 50,100; 2025 50,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50,533 | 7,331 | $82,430 | 0.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 50,127 | 7,421 | $79,392 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 49,867 | 7,448 | $75,521 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 49,759 | 8,044 | $74,750 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 47,644 | 8,045 | $71,466 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 46,442 | 7,818 | $64,581 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 47,481 | 7,482 | $59,485 | 3.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 45,831 | 7,494 | $55,737 | 5.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 43,622 | 7,254 | $52,169 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 42,051 | 7,183 | $49,923 | 1.0% | pub. |
† 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.
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Real Estate in Washington, quarterly, at full depth
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