Pennsylvania · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025

Food Manufacturing in Pennsylvania

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

In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 82,500 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 1,639 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,900.

Employment in Food Manufacturing in Pennsylvania grew 15.3% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 82,500. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Pennsylvania are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 82,500Employment, 2025
  • 1,639Establishments
  • $63,900Avg. annual pay
  • 1.4%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
  • 1.20Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Manufacturing in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 72,800 to 82,500.025K50K75K100K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 72,800; 2005 71,300; 2006 68,900; 2007 68,700; 2008 67,900; 2009 66,800; 2010 66,500; 2011 66,700; 2012 66,900; 2013 67,500; 2014 69,500; 2015 69,700; 2016 70,100; 2017 71,600; 2018 72,800; 2019 73,500; 2020 71,600; 2021 73,000; 2022 77,800; 2023 80,200; 2024 81,800; 2025 82,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202582,5331,639$63,901 0.9%pub.
202481,8211,565$61,124 2.0%pub.
202380,2271,511$59,243 3.2%pub.
202277,7591,469$58,068 6.5%pub.
202173,0211,408$56,325 2.0%pub.
202071,5821,367$54,639 2.6%pub.
201973,5321,363$51,280 1.0%pub.
201872,8091,337$49,560 1.7%pub.
201771,6221,320$48,888 2.1%pub.
201670,1131,313$48,251 0.6%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 Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth

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

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