Georgia · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025
Food Services and Drinking Places in Georgia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Georgia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 405,700 people in Georgia across roughly 24,137 establishments, with average annual pay of $25,990.
Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Georgia grew 21.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 64.4% below the all-industries average in Georgia. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 405,700. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Georgia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 405,700Employment, 2025
- 24,137Establishments
- $25,990Avg. annual pay
- 8.3%Share of Georgia jobs
- 1.06Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 282,100; 2005 291,700; 2006 300,500; 2007 310,400; 2008 309,300; 2009 298,300; 2010 294,100; 2011 300,800; 2012 311,800; 2013 326,900; 2014 341,100; 2015 355,800; 2016 370,800; 2017 379,800; 2018 387,000; 2019 394,100; 2020 334,900; 2021 360,000; 2022 383,300; 2023 399,300; 2024 403,900; 2025 405,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 405,712 | 24,137 | $25,986 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 403,882 | 23,628 | $25,380 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 399,264 | 22,756 | $24,499 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 383,308 | 22,835 | $23,642 | 6.5% | pub. |
| 2021 | 359,966 | 21,318 | $21,678 | 7.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 334,898 | 20,135 | $18,988 | 15.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 394,077 | 19,119 | $18,486 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 387,040 | 18,408 | $17,862 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 379,804 | 17,894 | $17,292 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 370,764 | 18,516 | $16,763 | 4.2% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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Food Services and Drinking Places in Georgia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food services and drinking places in Georgia. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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