Virginia · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in Virginia

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

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 347,900 people in Virginia across roughly 19,483 establishments, with average annual pay of $28,870.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Virginia grew 24.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 63.9% below the all-industries average in Virginia. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 347,900Employment, 2025
  • 19,483Establishments
  • $28,870Avg. annual pay
  • 8.4%Share of Virginia jobs
  • 0.92Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 278,200 to 347,900.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 278,200; 2005 286,800; 2006 294,500; 2007 300,300; 2008 303,300; 2009 296,700; 2010 295,900; 2011 302,700; 2012 311,200; 2013 317,500; 2014 322,600; 2015 333,300; 2016 343,300; 2017 348,900; 2018 351,900; 2019 352,200; 2020 279,400; 2021 303,000; 2022 328,500; 2023 344,800; 2024 346,400; 2025 347,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025347,91119,483$28,875 0.4%pub.
2024346,44719,197$28,037 0.5%pub.
2023344,78819,186$27,023 5.0%pub.
2022328,52719,292$25,738 8.4%pub.
2021302,98618,167$23,628 8.4%pub.
2020279,41617,681$21,022 20.7%pub.
2019352,16217,608$20,580 0.1%pub.
2018351,94117,405$19,697 0.9%pub.
2017348,94817,305$19,081 1.7%pub.
2016343,29116,994$18,555 3.0%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 servicesLQSource
721Accommodation42,71412.3%0.80pub.
722Food Services and Drinking Places305,19787.7%0.94pub.

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.

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Accommodation and Food Services in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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