Washington · NAICS 921 · Annual, 2025

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in Washington

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 921 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support (NAICS 921) employed about 88,400 people in Washington across roughly 689 establishments, with average annual pay of $95,100.

Employment in Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in Washington grew 13.9% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 88,400. 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.

  • 88,400Employment, 2025
  • 689Establishments
  • $95,100Avg. annual pay
  • 2.5%Share of Washington jobs
  • 1.16Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in Washington, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 81,500 to 88,400.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 81,500; 2005 82,200; 2006 83,000; 2007 84,300; 2008 86,900; 2009 85,300; 2010 83,300; 2011 81,500; 2012 80,200; 2013 79,500; 2014 79,800; 2015 80,400; 2016 82,500; 2017 83,300; 2018 84,600; 2019 81,300; 2020 77,700; 2021 78,300; 2022 80,300; 2023 83,900; 2024 87,600; 2025 88,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202588,440689$95,102 0.9%pub.
202487,610688$89,301 4.5%pub.
202383,871664$86,475 4.4%pub.
202280,309645$82,106 2.5%pub.
202178,332614$78,691 0.9%pub.
202077,668607$76,973 4.5%pub.
201981,286612$71,067 3.9%pub.
201884,559603$70,583 1.5%pub.
201783,288591$68,276 1.0%pub.
201682,500589$66,152 2.6%pub.

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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Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support in Washington, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for executive, legislative, and other general government support 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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