Kansas · SOC 35-0000 · Annual, 2025
Food preparation and serving related occupations in Kansas
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 35-0000 in Kansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 121,800 people in Kansas worked in food preparation and serving related occupations (SOC 35-0000), with an average annual wage of $33,790.
Employment in food preparation and serving related occupations in Kansas grew 15.3% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 46.5% below the all-occupations average in Kansas. Quarterly values, full occupation 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.
- 121,800Employment, 2025
- $33,790Mean annual wage
- 8.5%Share of Kansas jobs
- 0.97Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 105,100; 2005 106,000; 2006 107,900; 2007 109,600; 2008 110,700; 2009 109,700; 2010 108,700; 2011 109,800; 2012 112,700; 2013 114,100; 2014 115,600; 2015 118,400; 2016 119,300; 2017 121,200; 2018 121,700; 2019 122,000; 2020 105,600; 2021 110,000; 2022 114,300; 2023 119,700; 2024 122,300; 2025 121,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 121,767 | $33,788 | 0.4% |
| 2024 | 122,295 | $32,697 | 2.2% |
| 2023 | 119,662 | $31,363 | 4.7% |
| 2022 | 114,296 | $29,432 | 3.9% |
| 2021 | 109,969 | $26,867 | 4.1% |
| 2020 | 105,613 | $24,441 | 13.4% |
| 2019 | 121,980 | $22,913 | 0.2% |
| 2018 | 121,725 | $22,326 | 0.4% |
| 2017 | 121,177 | $21,858 | 1.6% |
| 2016 | 119,301 | $21,319 | 0.8% |
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. Every occupation value is a DTG estimate: there is no published county or state census of occupations to report, so no value here is marked as published or estimated, and none carries a reliability score. Quarterly figures, county figures, detailed occupations and projected years are in the app.
How these figures are built
DTG’s industry employment fixes how many jobs there are in each industry in the state. The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ national industry-occupation matrix says how each industry is staffed, and the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics survey says how many people work in each occupation in the area and what they earn. DTG makes the three agree, so occupation employment sums to the same totals as industry employment. Employment is the annual average; the mean annual wage is the year’s total occupation wages divided by that average employment. The construction is described in full on the occupation data page.
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Food preparation and serving related occupations in Kansas, quarterly, at full depth
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