Economy and Finance
Table 6-1: Transportation and Warehousing Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll ($ thousands)
Alabama 2,874 54,263 2,211,262
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Transportation and Warehousing sector, North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) 48, includes industries providing transportation of passengers and cargo, warehousing and storage for goods, scenic and sightseeing transportation, and support activities related to modes of transportation. Establishments in these industries use transportation equipment or transportation related facilities as a productive asset. The type of equipment depends on the mode of transportation. The industries included are: air transportation, water transportation, truck transportation, transit and ground passenger transportation, pipeline transportation, scenic and sightseeing transportation, support activities for transportation, postal service, couriers and messengers, and warehousing and storage.
These data do not include government, railroad transportation (NAICS 482), or self-employed persons.
Table 6-2: Air Transportation Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll ($ thousands)
Alabama 51 W 18,127
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Air Transportation subsector (NAICS 481) includes industries providing air transportation of passengers and/or cargo using aircraft, such as airplanes and helicopters. These data do not include scenic and sightseeing air transportation (NAICS 4879, part), support activities for air transportation (NAICS 4881), or air courier services (NAICS 4921, part).
KEY: W = data withheld to avoid disclosure.
1Values for states not reported individually are included in U.S. totals.
Table 6-3: Water Transportation Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll
($ thousands)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Water Transportation subsector (NAICS 483) includes industries providing water transportation of passengers and cargo using water craft, such as ships, barges, and boats. The subsector is composed of two industry groups: one for deep sea, coastal, and Great Lakes; and one for inland water transportation. This split typically reflects the difference in equipment used. These data do not include scenic and sightseeing water transportation services (NAICS 4872) and support activities for water transportation (NAICS 4883).
KEY: W = data withheld to avoid disclosure.
1Values for states not reported individually are included in U.S. totals.
Table 6-4: Truck Transportation Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll
($ thousands)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Truck Transportation subsector (NAICS 484) includes industries providing over-the-road transportation of cargo using motor vehicles, such as trucks and tractor trailers. The subsector is divided into two industry groups for general freight trucking and specialized freight trucking. This distinction reflects differences in equipment used, type of load carried, scheduling, terminal, and other networking services. These data do not include support activities for road transportation (NAICS 4884), freight transportation arrangement services (NAICS 4885, part), the Postal Service (NAICS 491), or courier services (NAICS 492, part).
Table 6-5: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll
($ thousands)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation subsector (NAICS 485) includes industries providing a variety of passenger transportation activities, such as urban transit systems; chartered bus, school bus, and interurban bus transportation; and taxis. These activities are distinguished based primarily on such production process factors as vehicle types, routes, and schedules. These data do not include scenic and sightseeing transportation (NAICS 4871, part), support activities for road transportation (NAICS 4884), or arrangement for car pools and vanpools (NAICS 4889, part).
KEY: W = data withheld to avoid disclosure.
1Values for states not reported individually are included in U.S. totals.
Table 6-6: Pipeline Transportation Establishments and Employment: 2010
State Number of establishments Number of paid employees Annual payroll
($ thousands)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce , U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, available at www.census.gov/econ/cbp as of March 2013.
NOTES: The Pipeline Transportation subsector (NAICS 486) includes industries using transmission pipelines to transport products, such as crude oil, natural gas, refined petroleum products, and slurry. Industry groups are determined based on the products transported (i.e., crude oil, natural gas, and other). Gas industry data include the storage of natural gas because the storage is usually done by the pipeline establishment and because a pipeline is inherently a network in which all the nodes are interdependent. These data do not include activities classified under the Utilities sector, such as natural gas distribution (NAICS 2212) or water and air distribution and collection (NAICS 2213).
KEY: W = data withheld to avoid disclosure.
1Values for states not reported individually are included in U.S. totals.
Table 6-7: Freight Railroad Employment, Retirement, and Wages: 20111
State Number of employees Wages ($ millions) Number of retirement
beneficiaries Retirement payments
NOTE: Wages are estimated by multiplying average wage by number of employees in each state. For Class I railroads, average wages are estimated based on aggregate data which incorporates fringe benefits, assumed to be 37.5 percent of wages.
1Includes Class I, Regional, Switching and Terminal, and Local freight railroads.
SOURCE: Association of American Railroads, Railroad Ten-Year Trends 2002-2011, available at www.aar.org/StatisticsAndPublications as of July 2013.
Table 6-8: Transportation Expenditures by State and Local Governments: 2010
1District of Columbia 2,624 590 2,034 Z Z
Florida 13,418 8,865 1,451 2,332 769
United States, total 246,096 157,550 60,089 23,129 5,329
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, State and Local Government Finance, available at www.census.gov/govs/estimate as of March 2013.
NOTES: Data are for fiscal year 2010. Most state government fiscal years end on June 30, except for four states with other ending dates: Alabama and Michigan (September 30), New York (March 31), and Texas (August 31). Not all agencies of a government necessarily have a fiscal period that coincides with the central organization. Totals for an individual government, in those instances, are the summation of finances for all agencies with a fiscal period ending between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Details may not add to totals due to rounding and values that are too small to report.
KEY: Z = Data not available, no activity, value of zero, or value too small to report.
1State fiscal years ending in 2010.
(Millions of current dollars)
District of Columbia 839 71 768 Z Z
Florida 8,045 5,771 257 1,666 352
United States, total 110,597 75,729 13,006 17,987 3,875
Table 6-9: Transportation Revenues Collected by State and Local Governments: 20101
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Census Bureau, State and Local Government Finance, available at www.census.gov/govs/estimate as of March 2013.
NOTES: Data are for fiscal year 2010. Most state government fiscal years end on June 30, except for four states with other ending dates:
Alabama and Michigan (September 30), New York (March 31), and Texas (August 31). Not all agencies of a government necessarily have a fiscal period that coincides with the central organization. Totals for an individual government, in those instances, are the summation of finances for all agencies with a fiscal period ending between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010. Details may not add to totals due to rounding and values that are too small to report.
KEY: Z = Data not available, no activity, value of zero, or value too small to report.
2Highway Revenues include state and local government receipts from motor fuel taxes, motor vehicle license taxes, motor vehicle operator license taxes, regular and toll highway charges, and receipts from parking facilities.
1State fiscal years ending in 2010.
Table 6-10: Federal and State Funding of Public Transit: 2000, 2005, and 2010
District of Columbia 81,883 NR 133,309 212,050 283,671 322,038
Florida 200,817 92,724 259,273 149,738 386,206 184,516
New Hampshire 9,588 0 9,092 225 11,865 494
New Jersey 383,154 509,237 453,938 910,584 685,717 1,157,687
New Mexico 29,447 0 19,137 2,830 35,541 18,417
New York 844,552 1,926,571 1,105,388 2,169,005 1,730,895 4,352,345
North Carolina 55,260 38,247 119,071 111,725 116,176 74,948
North Dakota 4,615 1,666 8,144 2,204 13,680 3,150
Ohio 132,460 42,348 167,401 18,300 192,156 10,839
Oklahoma 20,283 3,530 46,436 3,250 42,784 6,083
Oregon 52,339 15,553 93,860 26,141 166,601 108,055
Pennsylvania 297,215 731,800 393,977 835,223 424,423 1,225,108
Rhode Island 15,620 36,822 24,522 34,848 28,083 53,538
South Carolina 29,053 4,234 30,500 5,943 43,764 6,000
South Dakota 4,747 397 6,927 1,891 11,417 770
Tennessee 38,010 22,291 65,656 34,196 79,788 35,927
West Virginia 29,774 1,395 15,826 2,258 23,382 2,833
Wisconsin 65,748 100,448 69,408 109,438 84,708 132,066
Wyoming 2,308 NR 3,106 2,956 8,090 2,496
United States, total 5,567,261 7,499,314 7,371,041 9,517,291 10,063,053 13,630,074 2010
2005 2000
SOURCE: Federal: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration, Funding By State, available at www.fta.dot.gov/12853_88.html as of March 2013. State: American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, Survey of State Funding for Public Transportation 2012, available at
scopt.transportation.org/Pages/MTAPPublications.aspx as of March 2013.
KEY: NR = not reported.
Table 6-11: Average Motor Gasoline Prices Excluding Taxes, All Grades: 2008-2010
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration, Gasoline Prices by Formulation, Grade, Sales Type available at www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_allmg_a_epm0_pta_dpgal_a.htm as of June 2013.
NOTE: Data includes sales to end users through retail outlets as well as all direct sales to end users that were not made through company-operated retail outlets (e.g., sales to agricultural customers, commercial sales, and industrial sales).
KEY: NA = Not available.
Table 6-12: State Motor-Fuel Tax Rates: 2011
(Cents per gallon)State Gasoline Diesel Liquefied petroleum gas Gasohol1
Alabama 18.00 19.00 0.00 18.00
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, Highway Statistics, MF-121T, available at www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics.cfm as of March 2013.
NOTE: Tax rates in effect as of December 31, 2011.
1Tax rates for gasoline blended with 10 percent ethanol.
2California "Gasoline" represents fuel for aviation, which is taxed at 18 cents, gasoline/gasohol for motor vehicles is taxed at 35.7 cents.
