Texas · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025
Food and Beverage Retailers in Texas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in Texas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 300,600 people in Texas across roughly 11,058 establishments, with average annual pay of $35,640.
Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in Texas grew 15.8% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 54.3% below the all-industries average in Texas. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 300,600. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 300,600Employment, 2025
- 11,058Establishments
- $35,640Avg. annual pay
- 2.1%Share of Texas jobs
- 1.02Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 198,000; 2005 195,500; 2006 198,100; 2007 201,600; 2008 205,800; 2009 208,000; 2010 208,600; 2011 211,300; 2012 215,200; 2013 222,300; 2014 227,700; 2015 236,200; 2016 239,600; 2017 242,800; 2018 244,300; 2019 247,900; 2020 259,600; 2021 265,500; 2022 272,900; 2023 283,100; 2024 288,000; 2025 300,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 300,637 | 11,058 | $35,644 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 287,998 | 10,937 | $34,609 | 1.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 283,111 | 10,804 | $33,208 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 272,874 | 10,631 | $32,159 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 265,488 | 10,288 | $30,395 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 259,611 | 9,967 | $30,424 | 4.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 247,883 | 9,673 | $27,435 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 244,265 | 9,454 | $26,804 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2017 | 242,781 | 9,429 | $26,117 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 239,570 | 9,455 | $25,457 | 1.4% | 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 and Beverage Retailers in Texas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food and beverage retailers in Texas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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