How many sign shops are in the Charleston area?

Name: Sign shops in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area, 2024
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22 sign shops

in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 12% larger share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 12.6% of South Carolina's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023+4.8%1 more shops than 2023

Concentration1.12×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Charleston area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
59	Bridgeport areaCT	22	112	$58,499	0.79×
59	Buffalo areaNY	22	293	$60,507	1.16×
59	Cape Coral areaFL	22	212	$56,623	1.21×
59	Charleston areaSC	22	—	—	1.12×
59	Deltona areaFL	22	—	—	1.73×
59	Greensboro areaNC	22	390	$57,832	1.56×
59	Memphis areaTN-MS-AR	22	168	$45,112	1.08×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For South Carolina as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the South Carolina page.

Other metro areas in South Carolina

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Charlotte area	73	—	—	1.18×
Greenville area	30	—	—	1.65×
Columbia area	28	—	—	1.84×
Myrtle Beach area	18	132	$53,642	2.29×
Spartanburg area	12	35	$49,921	2.15×
Augusta area	11	—	—	1.24×
Hilton Head Island area	7	—	—	1.28×
Florence area	4	—	—	1.28×

Sign permits in Charleston

Sign permits are issued city by city, and the permit is often the slowest step in a sign job. The rules a shop works under in Charleston, from permit triggers to size and lighting limits, are set out in a plain-English guide to Charleston's sign regulations from PrinterFlo.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Charleston area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 22 sign manufacturing establishments in the Charleston-North Charleston, SC metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 59 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Charleston area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Charleston area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, South Carolina's sign shops paid an average of $58,640 that year.

Does the Charleston area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up a 12% larger share of the Charleston area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.12, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Charleston-North Charleston, SC metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.