Florida · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025
Food and Beverage Retailers in Florida
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in Florida, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 272,400 people in Florida across roughly 11,266 establishments, with average annual pay of $32,740.
Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in Florida grew 13.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Florida as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.31). Average pay in the industry is 55.0% below the all-industries average in Florida. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Florida are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 272,400Employment, 2025
- 11,266Establishments
- $32,740Avg. annual pay
- 2.8%Share of Florida jobs
- 1.31Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 203,500; 2005 198,800; 2006 199,400; 2007 198,400; 2008 197,300; 2009 190,300; 2010 190,400; 2011 192,800; 2012 194,600; 2013 202,100; 2014 210,900; 2015 220,900; 2016 225,600; 2017 227,300; 2018 231,800; 2019 234,300; 2020 240,000; 2021 245,000; 2022 252,700; 2023 261,000; 2024 265,900; 2025 272,400.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 272,409 | 11,266 | $32,742 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 265,920 | 11,082 | $31,479 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2023 | 261,035 | 11,005 | $30,617 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 252,663 | 11,068 | $29,464 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 244,977 | 11,057 | $28,056 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 240,018 | 10,649 | $27,237 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 234,313 | 10,505 | $25,053 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 231,763 | 10,507 | $24,065 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2017 | 227,304 | 10,583 | $23,432 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 225,595 | 10,652 | $22,980 | 2.1% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 Florida, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food and beverage retailers in Florida. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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