Montana · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in Montana

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in Montana, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 60,200 people in Montana across roughly 3,814 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,940.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Montana grew 25.0% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Montana as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.29). Average pay in the industry is 52.4% below the all-industries average in Montana. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Montana are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 60,200Employment, 2025
  • 3,814Establishments
  • $29,940Avg. annual pay
  • 11.8%Share of Montana jobs
  • 1.29Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Montana, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 44,200 to 60,200.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 44,200; 2005 45,100; 2006 46,000; 2007 46,800; 2008 47,400; 2009 45,500; 2010 44,900; 2011 45,800; 2012 47,300; 2013 48,900; 2014 49,300; 2015 51,300; 2016 52,800; 2017 53,500; 2018 54,100; 2019 54,800; 2020 48,200; 2021 54,000; 2022 58,400; 2023 60,200; 2024 60,500; 2025 60,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202560,2233,814$29,945 0.4%pub.
202460,4773,973$28,560 0.5%pub.
202360,1854,163$27,140 3.0%pub.
202258,4193,922$25,613 8.1%pub.
202154,0233,758$22,854 12.1%pub.
202048,1873,733$20,048 12.0%pub.
201954,7893,642$19,412 1.2%pub.
201854,1373,655$18,566 1.3%pub.
201753,4513,582$17,891 1.1%pub.
201652,8413,451$17,222 3.0%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 2 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of accommodation and food servicesLQSource
721Accommodation15,98026.5%2.41pub.
722Food Services and Drinking Places44,24373.5%1.10pub.

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.

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Accommodation and Food Services in Montana, quarterly, at full depth

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

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