Vermont · SOC 35-0000 · Annual, 2025

Food preparation and serving related occupations in Vermont

Employment and average annual wage for SOC 35-0000 in Vermont, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.

In 2025, about 25,900 people in Vermont worked in food preparation and serving related occupations (SOC 35-0000), with an average annual wage of $44,940.

Employment in food preparation and serving related occupations in Vermont grew 34.6% from 2020 to 2025. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for Vermont are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 25,900Employment, 2025
  • $44,940Mean annual wage
  • 8.4%Share of Vermont jobs
  • 0.96Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in food preparation and serving related occupations in Vermont, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 22,500 to 25,900.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 22,500; 2005 22,600; 2006 22,900; 2007 22,700; 2008 22,500; 2009 21,900; 2010 22,400; 2011 22,500; 2012 23,100; 2013 23,600; 2014 24,100; 2015 24,700; 2016 24,900; 2017 25,200; 2018 25,700; 2019 26,000; 2020 19,200; 2021 20,900; 2022 23,100; 2023 24,900; 2024 26,200; 2025 25,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentMean annual wageChange
202525,881$44,939 1.1%
202426,178$42,954 5.3%
202324,857$42,034 7.5%
202223,123$39,329 10.6%
202120,910$35,233 8.8%
202019,222$33,124 26.2%
201926,043$30,182 1.5%
201825,655$29,331 1.9%
201725,177$28,495 1.2%
201624,879$27,202 0.9%

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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.

How these figures are built

DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.

Occupation values are DTG estimates built on OEWS and DTG's industry data, as described in the methodology. Method: Occupation.

Notes

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Food preparation and serving related occupations in Vermont, quarterly, at full depth

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