How many sign shops are in the St. Louis area?

Name: Sign shops in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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53 sign shops

in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up a 11% smaller share of local private employers than they do nationally.

Shops vs 2023-1.9%1 fewer shops than 2023

Concentration0.89×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The St. Louis area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
26	Cleveland areaOH	55	—	—	1.37×
27	Pittsburgh areaPA	54	—	—	1.29×
28	Cincinnati areaOH-KY-IN	53	—	—	1.25×
28	St. Louis areaMO-IL	53	—	—	0.89×
30	Indianapolis areaIN	52	—	—	1.38×
31	Kansas City areaMO-KS	51	—	—	1.05×
32	Columbus areaOH	48	—	—	1.27×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. The St. Louis area crosses state lines (Missouri, Illinois) and is counted whole. For Missouri as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Missouri page.

Other metro areas in Missouri

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Kansas City area	51	—	—	1.05×
Springfield area	18	—	—	1.86×
Columbia area	5	17	$28,009	1.36×
Jefferson City area	5	30	$44,704	1.95×
St. Joseph area	5	—	—	2.19×
Cape Girardeau area	2	—	—	1.01×
Joplin area	1	—	—	0.29×

Sign permits in St. Louis

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 St. Louis, from permit triggers to size and lighting limits, are set out in a plain-English guide to St. Louis's sign regulations from PrinterFlo.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the St. Louis area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 53 sign manufacturing establishments in the St. Louis, MO-IL metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 28 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the St. Louis area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the St. Louis area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Missouri's sign shops paid an average of $55,078 that year.

Does the St. Louis area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, no: sign shops make up a 11% smaller share of the St. Louis area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 0.89, 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, St. Louis, MO-IL 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.