Missouri · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025

Food Services and Drinking Places in Missouri

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 230,100 people in Missouri across roughly 12,631 establishments, with average annual pay of $25,590.

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Missouri grew 17.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.5% below the all-industries average in Missouri. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Missouri are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 230,100Employment, 2025
  • 12,631Establishments
  • $25,590Avg. annual pay
  • 7.9%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 1.01Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 195,900 to 230,100.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 195,900; 2005 199,900; 2006 205,300; 2007 208,100; 2008 206,900; 2009 203,000; 2010 201,600; 2011 202,000; 2012 205,600; 2013 210,400; 2014 214,900; 2015 220,300; 2016 225,800; 2017 227,800; 2018 228,700; 2019 230,500; 2020 196,200; 2021 211,100; 2022 224,500; 2023 231,200; 2024 231,400; 2025 230,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025230,11312,631$25,591 0.6%pub.
2024231,41912,326$24,566 0.1%pub.
2023231,24812,243$23,691 3.0%pub.
2022224,54811,887$22,441 6.4%pub.
2021211,06511,569$21,137 7.6%est. · 1.00
2020196,16211,528$18,638 14.9%est. · 1.00
2019230,47511,417$17,829 0.8%est. · 1.00
2018228,70711,194$17,092 0.4%est. · 1.00
2017227,84511,208$16,487 0.9%est. · 1.00
2016225,81410,900$15,902 2.5%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Food Services and Drinking Places in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for food services and drinking places in Missouri. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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