Washington · NAICS 562 · Annual, 2025

Waste Management and Remediation Services in Washington

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 562 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Waste Management and Remediation Services (NAICS 562) employed about 18,800 people in Washington across roughly 846 establishments, with average annual pay of $100,740.

Employment in Waste Management and Remediation Services in Washington grew 10.7% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Washington as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.49). QCEW withheld part of this figure for Washington; DTG's estimate is shown, with a reliability score of 0.99. 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.

  • 18,800Employment, 2025
  • 846Establishments
  • $100,740Avg. annual pay
  • 0.5%Share of Washington jobs
  • 1.49Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 0.99. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Waste Management and Remediation Services in Washington, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 13,500 to 18,800.05K10K15K20K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 13,500; 2005 14,000; 2006 13,700; 2007 14,400; 2008 15,000; 2009 15,200; 2010 16,300; 2011 16,000; 2012 14,200; 2013 14,300; 2014 14,400; 2015 14,900; 2016 14,900; 2017 15,500; 2018 15,900; 2019 16,500; 2020 16,900; 2021 17,600; 2022 17,900; 2023 18,300; 2024 18,800; 2025 18,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202518,751846$100,739 0.1%est. · 0.99
202418,780817$97,970 2.4%est. · 0.99
202318,344774$97,258 2.6%est. · 0.99
202217,874770$88,905 1.5%est. · 0.99
202117,613749$85,080 4.0%est. · 0.99
202016,940707$82,546 2.7%est. · 0.99
201916,497686$79,714 3.7%est. · 0.99
201815,911662$77,887 2.9%est. · 0.98
201715,466631$77,738 3.5%est. · 0.99
201614,940597$77,599 0.2%est. · 0.98

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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. 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.

Notes

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Waste Management and Remediation Services in Washington, quarterly, at full depth

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