Rhode Island · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025

Food Services and Drinking Places in Rhode Island

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

In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 46,100 people in Rhode Island across roughly 3,075 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,700.

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Rhode Island grew 32.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 58.2% below the all-industries average in Rhode Island. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 46,100. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Rhode Island are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 46,100Employment, 2025
  • 3,075Establishments
  • $29,700Avg. annual pay
  • 9.2%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 1.18Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 38,700 to 46,100.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 38,700; 2005 38,800; 2006 38,700; 2007 39,100; 2008 38,800; 2009 37,500; 2010 38,000; 2011 38,400; 2012 39,800; 2013 40,900; 2014 42,000; 2015 42,800; 2016 43,800; 2017 44,100; 2018 44,700; 2019 45,000; 2020 34,700; 2021 39,800; 2022 44,000; 2023 45,200; 2024 45,700; 2025 46,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202546,0593,075$29,698 0.7%est. · 1.00
202445,7313,076$28,667 1.2%pub.
202345,1723,073$27,737 2.6%pub.
202244,0293,057$26,621 10.5%pub.
202139,8253,032$25,282 14.7%pub.
202034,7232,987$22,208 22.8%pub.
201944,9882,992$20,966 0.8%pub.
201844,6522,921$20,210 1.2%pub.
201744,1092,862$19,500 0.8%pub.
201643,7512,807$18,816 2.1%pub.

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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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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Food Services and Drinking Places in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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