Tennessee · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025
Food and Beverage Retailers in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 60,300 people in Tennessee across roughly 2,759 establishments, with average annual pay of $31,380.
Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in Tennessee grew 23.3% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 55.4% below the all-industries average in Tennessee. 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.
- 60,300Employment, 2025
- 2,759Establishments
- $31,380Avg. annual pay
- 1.8%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 0.88Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 48,900; 2005 48,200; 2006 49,000; 2007 51,100; 2008 51,400; 2009 51,800; 2010 51,400; 2011 51,400; 2012 52,700; 2013 54,200; 2014 55,500; 2015 55,800; 2016 56,900; 2017 56,900; 2018 57,400; 2019 57,600; 2020 59,100; 2021 57,900; 2022 58,700; 2023 59,800; 2024 60,400; 2025 60,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60,260 | 2,759 | $31,377 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 60,401 | 2,835 | $30,491 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 59,830 | 2,765 | $29,612 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 58,687 | 2,626 | $28,256 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 57,909 | 2,551 | $26,743 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 59,127 | 2,480 | $25,753 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 57,627 | 2,448 | $23,357 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2018 | 57,445 | 2,437 | $22,514 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 56,940 | 2,373 | $22,168 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 56,871 | 2,378 | $21,681 | 1.9% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 and Beverage Retailers in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food and beverage retailers 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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