Pennsylvania · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025
Accommodation and Food Services in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 468,900 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 28,969 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,240.
Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Pennsylvania grew 31.4% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 64.7% below the all-industries average in Pennsylvania. 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.
- 468,900Employment, 2025
- 28,969Establishments
- $26,240Avg. annual pay
- 7.8%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 0.85Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 397,200; 2005 404,000; 2006 410,300; 2007 417,400; 2008 417,700; 2009 408,400; 2010 412,500; 2011 419,200; 2012 431,000; 2013 441,400; 2014 447,100; 2015 453,900; 2016 463,300; 2017 470,600; 2018 474,700; 2019 478,200; 2020 357,000; 2021 398,000; 2022 443,300; 2023 461,800; 2024 465,000; 2025 468,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 468,882 | 28,969 | $26,245 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 465,029 | 28,689 | $25,518 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 461,830 | 28,436 | $24,728 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 443,289 | 28,466 | $23,614 | 11.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 398,005 | 27,920 | $22,081 | 11.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 356,960 | 28,262 | $19,733 | 25.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 478,163 | 28,474 | $19,451 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 474,698 | 28,419 | $18,747 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 470,587 | 28,220 | $18,125 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 463,259 | 27,958 | $17,668 | 2.1% | pub. |
† 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of accommodation and food services | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 721 | Accommodation | 57,440 | 12.3% | 0.73 | est. · 1.00 |
| 722 | Food Services and Drinking Places | 411,442 | 87.8% | 0.87 | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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Accommodation and Food Services in Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for accommodation and food services 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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