New Jersey · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in New Jersey

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

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 329,800 people in New Jersey across roughly 22,071 establishments, with average annual pay of $33,190.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in New Jersey grew 39.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.5% below the all-industries average in New Jersey. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 329,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 329,800Employment, 2025
  • 22,071Establishments
  • $33,190Avg. annual pay
  • 7.7%Share of New Jersey jobs
  • 0.84Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in New Jersey, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 274,000 to 329,800.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 274,000; 2005 279,900; 2006 286,400; 2007 286,600; 2008 286,400; 2009 280,200; 2010 280,700; 2011 281,200; 2012 288,700; 2013 294,600; 2014 295,700; 2015 295,800; 2016 303,700; 2017 307,300; 2018 317,900; 2019 322,400; 2020 236,900; 2021 271,900; 2022 309,200; 2023 325,200; 2024 329,200; 2025 329,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025329,78522,071$33,194 0.2%pub.
2024329,15421,789$32,297 1.2%pub.
2023325,20621,458$31,365 5.2%pub.
2022309,18521,034$30,008 13.7%pub.
2021271,93220,709$28,101 14.8%est. · 1.00
2020236,90120,609$24,844 26.5%est. · 1.00
2019322,36320,591$23,837 1.4%est. · 1.00
2018317,87020,281$23,949 3.5%est. · 1.00
2017307,26719,829$22,794 1.2%est. · 1.00
2016303,69119,619$22,401 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.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 2 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of accommodation and food servicesLQSource
721Accommodation45,33713.8%0.82pub.
722Food Services and Drinking Places284,44986.3%0.85pub.

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 New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth

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