Tennessee · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025
Food Manufacturing in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 311 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 40,300 people in Tennessee across roughly 673 establishments, with average annual pay of $68,320.
Employment in Food Manufacturing in Tennessee grew 12.0% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 40,300Employment, 2025
- 673Establishments
- $68,320Avg. annual pay
- 1.2%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.09Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 34,300; 2005 34,500; 2006 34,000; 2007 32,800; 2008 32,500; 2009 32,400; 2010 32,200; 2011 32,700; 2012 33,200; 2013 32,300; 2014 32,700; 2015 33,200; 2016 34,300; 2017 35,200; 2018 35,700; 2019 35,900; 2020 36,000; 2021 37,600; 2022 39,400; 2023 40,800; 2024 41,000; 2025 40,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40,302 | 673 | $68,320 | 1.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 40,975 | 699 | $67,086 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 40,830 | 662 | $63,670 | 3.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 39,425 | 597 | $62,329 | 4.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 37,628 | 552 | $59,937 | 4.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 35,989 | 481 | $59,447 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 35,902 | 464 | $54,600 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 35,725 | 454 | $53,773 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2017 | 35,244 | 420 | $53,759 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 34,263 | 387 | $52,185 | 3.1% | 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.
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Food Manufacturing in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food manufacturing in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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