Put states side by side on jobs, worksites, and pay, for all of manufacturing or any of its 21 subsectors, measured against the U.S. Official figures from the BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.
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01Comparison
Private-sector manufacturing (NAICS 31–33), annual averages for 2025, for the selected states and the U.S. They describe each industry statewide, not any individual plant or company.
| State | EmploymentJobs at private manufacturing employers, as an annual average of monthly counts. Excludes the self-employed. | EstablishmentsWorksites with employees covered by state unemployment insurance, as an annual average of quarterly counts. | Avg. annual payTotal wages divided by employment, in nominal dollars (not adjusted for inflation or cost of living). Not hourly pay or total compensation. | Total wagesAll wages paid by private manufacturing employers during the year, in nominal dollars. | Location quotientThe industry's share of all jobs in the state divided by its share of all U.S. jobs. 1.00 matches the U.S.; 1.50 means 50% more concentrated than the U.S.; below 1.00 means less. Published by BLS. | Jobs per establishment† (our calculation)Employment divided by establishments: the average worksite size across the whole industry in the state, not a typical plant's headcount. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,215,887#1 of 49.7% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 44,12511.0% of U.S.† (our calculation) | $132,063+47.6% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) | $160,574,197,42714.3% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 0.83 | 27.6−12.4% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) |
| Texas | 988,649#2 of 47.9% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 30,7787.7% of U.S.† (our calculation) | $97,490+9.0% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) | $96,382,963,1788.6% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 0.87 | 32.1+2.1% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) |
| Ohio | 675,735#3 of 45.4% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 16,5124.1% of U.S.† (our calculation) | $79,276−11.4% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) | $53,569,403,6614.8% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 1.51 | 40.9+30.1% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) |
| Michigan | 582,935#4 of 44.6% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 20,7345.2% of U.S.† (our calculation) | $85,789−4.1% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) | $50,009,168,9144.4% of U.S.† (our calculation) | 1.64 | 28.1−10.6% vs. U.S.† (our calculation) |
| United StatesNational benchmark | 12,579,906 | 399,936 | $89,471 | $1,125,542,676,332 | 1.00 | 31.5 |
United States (benchmark)
Our calculation from BLS figures; formulas are under “About this data.” All other values are published by BLS.
Reading unavailable values: “Not disclosed” means BLS withheld the figure to protect employer confidentiality; “No BLS data” means BLS publishes no figure for that state and industry; a plain 0 is a real zero. None is estimated or treated as zero.
U.S. total: 12,579,906. Bars begin at zero.
02Differences
How each other state differs from California in 2025: the absolute gap and, where a percentage is meaningful, the percent difference (state ÷ California − 1). Change the baseline above.
| State | Employment | Establishments | Avg. annual pay | Total wages | Location quotient | Jobs per establishment† (our calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CaliforniaBaseline | 1,215,887 | 44,125 | $132,063 | $160,574,197,427 | 0.83 | 27.6 |
| Texas | −227,238−18.7% | −13,347−30.2% | −$34,573−26.2% | −$64,191,234,249−40.0% | +0.04 | +4.6+16.6% |
| Ohio | −540,152−44.4% | −27,613−62.6% | −$52,787−40.0% | −$107,004,793,766−66.6% | +0.68 | +13.4+48.5% |
| Michigan | −632,952−52.1% | −23,391−53.0% | −$46,274−35.0% | −$110,565,028,513−68.9% | +0.81 | +0.6+2.0% |
Location quotients are compared in absolute terms only. Differences are our calculations from the published figures.
03Trends
Employment and pay for the same industry in every available year (all NAICS 2022). Missing years are shown as gaps, never filled in.
Jobs, annual average. Lines show change since 2022 (index, 2022 = 100); the table gives the actual values.
| Area | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change† (our calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,335,789 | 1,329,590 | 1,247,594 | 1,215,887 | −9.0%−119,902 |
| Texas | 925,394 | 955,403 | 973,674 | 988,649 | +6.8%+63,255 |
| Ohio | 683,148 | 687,345 | 682,242 | 675,735 | −1.1%−7,413 |
| Michigan | 603,413 | 613,227 | 600,753 | 582,935 | −3.4%−20,478 |
| United States | 12,759,129 | 12,868,061 | 12,733,350 | 12,579,906 | −1.4%−179,223 |
Nominal dollars: not adjusted for inflation, so part of any increase is price change. Lines show change since 2022 (index, 2022 = 100); the table gives the actual values.
| Area | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Change† (our calculation) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California | $117,801 | $123,547 | $122,468 | $132,063 | +12.1%+$14,262 |
| Texas | $87,406 | $91,188 | $94,441 | $97,490 | +11.5%+$10,084 |
| Ohio | $70,003 | $72,566 | $76,503 | $79,276 | +13.2%+$9,273 |
| Michigan | $75,192 | $78,459 | $82,422 | $85,789 | +14.1%+$10,597 |
| United States | $79,483 | $82,575 | $85,461 | $89,471 | +12.6%+$9,988 |
04Sources
Source. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), private-sector annual averages, NAICS 2022, years 2022–2025(final data). Dataset processed October 12, 2026. The same data and definitions as the state profiles; figures on both match. Independently processed; not endorsed by BLS.
Nominal dollars. Pay and wages are not adjusted for inflation, and states differ in cost of living and industry mix, so a higher average is not the same as higher purchasing power. Real (inflation-adjusted) trends would need a price index such as the BLS CPI, which this site does not yet include.
Limits. QCEW counts jobs covered by unemployment insurance, not the self-employed. Averages describe an entire state-industry, not any one company. BLS cautions that QCEW is not designed as a time series; years here share one classification (NAICS 2022). Subsector figures may be withheld, so they will not always add to totals. Not shown: output, value added, or shipments, which need Census data not yet on this site.