Washington · NAICS 71 · Annual, 2025

Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Washington

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 71 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (NAICS 71) employed about 82,700 people in Washington across roughly 3,651 establishments, with average annual pay of $50,930.

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Washington grew 53.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 48.9% below the all-industries average in Washington. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 82,700. 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.

  • 82,700Employment, 2025
  • 3,651Establishments
  • $50,930Avg. annual pay
  • 2.3%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

Employment in Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Washington, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 59,900 to 82,700.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 59,900; 2005 60,600; 2006 61,600; 2007 63,800; 2008 66,900; 2009 65,000; 2010 65,100; 2011 65,900; 2012 66,400; 2013 67,000; 2014 67,900; 2015 69,100; 2016 71,600; 2017 73,800; 2018 76,100; 2019 77,600; 2020 53,900; 2021 60,300; 2022 70,800; 2023 77,400; 2024 81,000; 2025 82,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202582,7493,651$50,929 2.1%est. · 1.00
202481,0183,536$48,685 4.6%pub.
202377,4353,358$48,080 9.3%pub.
202270,8343,452$46,503 17.4%pub.
202160,3343,393$44,018 11.9%pub.
202053,8943,305$41,497 30.6%pub.
201977,6253,237$36,233 2.1%pub.
201876,0653,150$35,344 3.1%pub.
201773,7933,100$34,566 3.0%pub.
201671,6413,077$33,218 3.7%pub.

† 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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of arts, entertainment, and recreationLQSource
711Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries12,79715.5%0.94est. · 0.99
712Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions8,50110.3%1.41est. · 0.90
713Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries61,45174.3%1.21pub.

† 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.

Notes

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Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation in Washington, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for arts, entertainment, and recreation in Washington. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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