Washington · SOC 27-0000 · Annual, 2025
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Washington
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 27-0000 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 52,000 people in Washington worked in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (SOC 27-0000), with an average annual wage of $104,620.
Employment in arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Washington grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 52,000Employment, 2025
- $104,620Mean annual wage
- 1.4%Share of Washington jobs
- 1.09Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 41,000; 2005 41,700; 2006 43,000; 2007 44,000; 2008 44,500; 2009 42,200; 2010 41,700; 2011 42,600; 2012 43,300; 2013 44,100; 2014 45,300; 2015 47,100; 2016 48,700; 2017 50,200; 2018 50,800; 2019 51,800; 2020 45,800; 2021 48,500; 2022 49,900; 2023 53,000; 2024 51,700; 2025 52,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 52,018 | $104,624 | 0.7% |
| 2024 | 51,661 | $96,871 | 2.5% |
| 2023 | 53,007 | $89,441 | 6.1% |
| 2022 | 49,941 | $83,365 | 3.0% |
| 2021 | 48,469 | $88,622 | 5.8% |
| 2020 | 45,822 | $80,035 | 11.5% |
| 2019 | 51,786 | $68,311 | 1.9% |
| 2018 | 50,819 | $65,683 | 1.2% |
| 2017 | 50,224 | $60,877 | 3.0% |
| 2016 | 48,735 | $57,906 | 3.5% |
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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Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Washington, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations in Washington. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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