West Virginia · NAICS 922 · Annual, 2025
Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in West Virginia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 922 in West Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (NAICS 922) employed about 14,700 people in West Virginia across roughly 327 establishments, with average annual pay of $80,020.
Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in West Virginia grew 45.6% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.7× as concentrated in West Virginia as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.69). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 14,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for West Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 14,700Employment, 2025
- 327Establishments
- $80,020Avg. annual pay
- 2.1%Share of West Virginia jobs
- 1.69Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 10,100; 2005 10,400; 2006 11,900; 2007 12,200; 2008 12,300; 2009 12,700; 2010 13,200; 2011 13,600; 2012 13,800; 2013 14,000; 2014 14,000; 2015 14,100; 2016 14,300; 2017 14,200; 2018 14,000; 2019 14,100; 2020 14,300; 2021 14,200; 2022 14,000; 2023 14,100; 2024 14,700; 2025 14,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14,721 | 327 | $80,025 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 14,664 | 328 | $77,510 | 4.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 14,053 | 335 | $72,932 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 13,989 | 330 | $67,356 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 14,168 | 356 | $65,135 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 14,254 | 360 | $63,545 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2019 | 14,105 | 361 | $59,966 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 14,016 | 360 | $58,725 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 14,193 | 361 | $54,747 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 14,290 | 360 | $53,482 | 1.4% | 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.
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Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in West Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
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