Kansas · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025
Food Manufacturing in Kansas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 311 in Kansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 37,800 people in Kansas across roughly 397 establishments, with average annual pay of $63,640.
Employment in Food Manufacturing in Kansas grew 8.4% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 2.3× as concentrated in Kansas as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 2.31). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Kansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 37,800Employment, 2025
- 397Establishments
- $63,640Avg. annual pay
- 2.6%Share of Kansas jobs
- 2.31Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 32,000; 2005 31,600; 2006 32,100; 2007 31,900; 2008 31,000; 2009 30,500; 2010 30,400; 2011 31,400; 2012 30,700; 2013 31,000; 2014 31,500; 2015 31,300; 2016 32,000; 2017 33,700; 2018 33,700; 2019 34,000; 2020 34,900; 2021 36,100; 2022 36,900; 2023 37,300; 2024 38,000; 2025 37,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37,778 | 397 | $63,639 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 38,002 | 394 | $62,776 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 37,315 | 381 | $62,882 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 36,865 | 372 | $65,180 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 36,059 | 359 | $62,082 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2020 | 34,859 | 350 | $59,853 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 34,011 | 340 | $52,625 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2018 | 33,716 | 337 | $52,774 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 33,657 | 328 | $51,077 | 5.2% | pub. |
| 2016 | 31,983 | 333 | $46,251 | 2.1% | 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 Manufacturing in Kansas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food manufacturing in Kansas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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