Arizona · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in Arizona

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

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 317,800 people in Arizona across roughly 13,962 establishments, with average annual pay of $32,510.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Arizona grew 29.1% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 55.4% below the all-industries average in Arizona. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 317,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arizona are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 317,800Employment, 2025
  • 13,962Establishments
  • $32,510Avg. annual pay
  • 9.8%Share of Arizona jobs
  • 1.08Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Arizona, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 212,500 to 317,800.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 212,500; 2005 223,100; 2006 233,900; 2007 238,200; 2008 235,200; 2009 223,600; 2010 221,300; 2011 226,700; 2012 233,200; 2013 241,900; 2014 250,400; 2015 260,700; 2016 269,100; 2017 277,200; 2018 284,000; 2019 291,900; 2020 246,100; 2021 271,200; 2022 296,100; 2023 310,700; 2024 315,400; 2025 317,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025317,77013,962$32,508 0.7%pub.
2024315,42913,972$31,646 1.5%pub.
2023310,70513,921$30,295 4.9%pub.
2022296,06913,048$28,943 9.2%pub.
2021271,17712,414$27,149 10.2%pub.
2020246,10012,119$24,412 15.7%pub.
2019291,87912,034$23,529 2.8%pub.
2018284,00611,568$22,322 2.5%pub.
2017277,15610,976$21,307 3.0%pub.
2016269,10210,551$20,048 3.2%pub.

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
721Accommodation50,94416.0%1.22est. · 1.00
722Food Services and Drinking Places266,82684.0%1.05est. · 1.00

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 Arizona, quarterly, at full depth

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