Hawaii · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025
Food Services and Drinking Places in Hawaii
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Hawaii, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 66,600 people in Hawaii across roughly 4,614 establishments, with average annual pay of $34,800.
Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Hawaii grew 40.2% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in Hawaii as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.32). Average pay in the industry is 50.7% below the all-industries average in Hawaii. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Hawaii are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 66,600Employment, 2025
- 4,614Establishments
- $34,800Avg. annual pay
- 10.3%Share of Hawaii jobs
- 1.32Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 54,800; 2005 56,300; 2006 57,400; 2007 58,900; 2008 57,800; 2009 55,500; 2010 55,600; 2011 57,000; 2012 58,600; 2013 60,800; 2014 62,100; 2015 63,700; 2016 66,100; 2017 69,000; 2018 68,900; 2019 70,200; 2020 47,500; 2021 56,300; 2022 62,900; 2023 65,500; 2024 65,900; 2025 66,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66,615 | 4,614 | $34,799 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 65,931 | 4,561 | $33,865 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 65,537 | 4,407 | $32,237 | 4.1% | pub. |
| 2022 | 62,940 | 4,140 | $30,721 | 11.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 56,350 | 3,930 | $27,714 | 18.6% | pub. |
| 2020 | 47,525 | 3,842 | $24,334 | 32.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 70,155 | 3,794 | $25,450 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 68,902 | 3,653 | $24,570 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 68,993 | 3,574 | $23,229 | 4.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 66,053 | 3,464 | $22,169 | 3.7% | pub. |
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 Services and Drinking Places in Hawaii, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food services and drinking places in Hawaii. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.