Nebraska · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025

Food Services and Drinking Places in Nebraska

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Nebraska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 75,400 people in Nebraska across roughly 4,446 establishments, with average annual pay of $22,600.

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Nebraska grew 22.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 64.2% below the all-industries average in Nebraska. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 75,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Nebraska are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 75,400Employment, 2025
  • 4,446Establishments
  • $22,600Avg. annual pay
  • 7.4%Share of Nebraska jobs
  • 0.94Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Nebraska, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 59,200 to 75,400.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 59,200; 2005 60,600; 2006 61,400; 2007 62,300; 2008 62,100; 2009 61,300; 2010 61,000; 2011 62,100; 2012 63,800; 2013 64,900; 2014 65,600; 2015 66,500; 2016 68,300; 2017 69,000; 2018 69,300; 2019 70,200; 2020 61,700; 2021 66,500; 2022 70,100; 2023 73,100; 2024 74,800; 2025 75,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202575,4394,446$22,599 0.8%pub.
202474,8444,326$21,837 2.4%pub.
202373,0654,306$21,051 4.2%pub.
202270,1124,314$20,245 5.4%pub.
202166,5014,228$18,962 7.8%est. · 1.00
202061,6964,139$17,133 12.1%est. · 1.00
201970,1564,169$16,407 1.2%est. · 1.00
201869,3474,133$15,944 0.5%est. · 1.00
201768,9874,121$15,477 1.0%est. · 1.00
201668,2814,089$15,057 2.7%est. · 1.00

† 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.

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 Services and Drinking Places in Nebraska, quarterly, at full depth

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