United States · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 14,225,600 people in the United States across roughly 804,349 establishments, with average annual pay of $30,930.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in the United States grew 27.4% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 60.7% below the all-industries average in the United States. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 14,225,600. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 14,225,600Employment, 2025
  • 804,349Establishments
  • $30,930Avg. annual pay
  • 9.1%Share of U.S. jobs

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 Accommodation and Food Services in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 10,671,700 to 14,225,600.05M10M15M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 10,671,700; 2005 10,935,100; 2006 11,189,500; 2007 11,443,700; 2008 11,491,900; 2009 11,158,800; 2010 11,183,500; 2011 11,453,000; 2012 11,847,900; 2013 12,256,000; 2014 12,622,100; 2015 13,030,200; 2016 13,411,000; 2017 13,701,600; 2018 13,944,100; 2019 14,149,900; 2020 11,170,300; 2021 12,253,800; 2022 13,512,900; 2023 14,077,100; 2024 14,207,100; 2025 14,225,600.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202514,225,604804,349$30,935 0.1%est. · 1.00
202414,207,063793,383$29,996 0.9%est. · 1.00
202314,077,055782,281$28,817 4.2%est. · 1.00
202213,512,899762,959$27,595 10.3%est. · 1.00
202112,253,769741,414$25,798 9.7%pub.
202011,170,328730,318$22,918 21.1%pub.
201914,149,897727,604$22,615 1.5%pub.
201813,944,148714,200$21,672 1.8%pub.
201713,701,645698,827$20,824 2.2%pub.
201613,411,037682,615$20,119 2.9%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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of accommodation and food servicesSource
721Accommodation2,016,22214.2%est. · 1.00
722Food Services and Drinking Places12,209,38285.8%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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Accommodation and Food Services in the United States, quarterly, at full depth

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