Idaho · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025

Food Manufacturing in Idaho

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 311 in Idaho, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 21,400 people in Idaho across roughly 512 establishments, with average annual pay of $66,250.

Employment in Food Manufacturing in Idaho grew 11.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.1× as concentrated in Idaho as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.14). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Idaho are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 21,400Employment, 2025
  • 512Establishments
  • $66,250Avg. annual pay
  • 2.4%Share of Idaho jobs
  • 2.14Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Manufacturing in Idaho, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 15,000 to 21,400.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 15,000; 2005 14,700; 2006 14,700; 2007 15,100; 2008 15,800; 2009 15,700; 2010 15,400; 2011 15,300; 2012 15,600; 2013 16,400; 2014 16,500; 2015 16,800; 2016 17,500; 2017 18,600; 2018 18,800; 2019 19,200; 2020 19,200; 2021 19,500; 2022 20,100; 2023 20,900; 2024 21,500; 2025 21,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202521,356512$66,246 0.6%pub.
202421,488476$62,473 2.8%pub.
202320,897441$61,190 4.2%pub.
202220,062423$57,282 3.1%pub.
202119,453386$54,329 1.5%pub.
202019,159347$52,547 0.2%pub.
201919,193327$49,614 2.1%pub.
201818,808341$47,879 1.3%pub.
201718,571345$46,424 6.4%pub.
201617,451336$44,355 3.9%pub.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Food Manufacturing in Idaho, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for food manufacturing in Idaho. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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