Minnesota · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025
Accommodation and Food Services in Minnesota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 228,500 people in Minnesota across roughly 12,846 establishments, with average annual pay of $28,260.
Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Minnesota grew 28.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 63.3% below the all-industries average in Minnesota. 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.
- 228,500Employment, 2025
- 12,846Establishments
- $28,260Avg. annual pay
- 7.8%Share of Minnesota jobs
- 0.85Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 205,400; 2005 211,100; 2006 211,500; 2007 214,600; 2008 212,400; 2009 205,200; 2010 203,300; 2011 207,100; 2012 211,600; 2013 216,800; 2014 220,000; 2015 225,200; 2016 229,600; 2017 232,600; 2018 233,700; 2019 235,600; 2020 177,500; 2021 196,700; 2022 217,100; 2023 226,300; 2024 229,500; 2025 228,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228,468 | 12,846 | $28,262 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 229,541 | 12,889 | $27,303 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2023 | 226,257 | 12,802 | $26,416 | 4.2% | pub. |
| 2022 | 217,075 | 12,468 | $25,252 | 10.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 196,670 | 11,933 | $23,260 | 10.8% | pub. |
| 2020 | 177,462 | 11,934 | $21,042 | 24.7% | pub. |
| 2019 | 235,644 | 12,012 | $20,946 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2018 | 233,678 | 12,076 | $20,170 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 232,583 | 11,715 | $19,447 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 229,574 | 11,210 | $18,602 | 1.9% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 2 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of accommodation and food services | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 721 | Accommodation | 32,013 | 14.0% | 0.84 | pub. |
| 722 | Food Services and Drinking Places | 196,455 | 86.0% | 0.85 | pub. |
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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Accommodation and Food Services in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for accommodation and food services in Minnesota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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