Minnesota · NAICS 311 · Annual, 2025
Food Manufacturing in Minnesota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 311 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Manufacturing (NAICS 311) employed about 47,800 people in Minnesota across roughly 748 establishments, with average annual pay of $71,140.
Employment in Food Manufacturing in Minnesota grew 8.8% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.4× as concentrated in Minnesota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.43). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 47,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 47,800Employment, 2025
- 748Establishments
- $71,140Avg. annual pay
- 1.6%Share of Minnesota jobs
- 1.43Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 44,000; 2005 43,300; 2006 42,600; 2007 42,700; 2008 42,800; 2009 43,000; 2010 43,400; 2011 43,800; 2012 44,300; 2013 45,300; 2014 45,600; 2015 45,900; 2016 46,500; 2017 47,600; 2018 47,400; 2019 46,500; 2020 45,600; 2021 46,100; 2022 47,300; 2023 47,300; 2024 47,500; 2025 47,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47,835 | 748 | $71,141 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2024 | 47,503 | 754 | $68,885 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 47,271 | 761 | $65,033 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2022 | 47,307 | 751 | $62,619 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2021 | 46,078 | 718 | $58,792 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 45,627 | 712 | $57,394 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 46,547 | 698 | $53,684 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 47,423 | 714 | $51,786 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 47,558 | 719 | $50,127 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 46,476 | 734 | $48,620 | 1.3% | 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 Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food manufacturing in Minnesota. 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.