New Jersey · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025

Food and Beverage Retailers in New Jersey

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 110,100 people in New Jersey across roughly 6,899 establishments, with average annual pay of $37,380.

Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in New Jersey declined 3.0% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 56.7% below the all-industries average in New Jersey. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 110,100Employment, 2025
  • 6,899Establishments
  • $37,380Avg. annual pay
  • 2.6%Share of New Jersey jobs
  • 1.23Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in New Jersey, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 113,500 to 110,100.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 113,500; 2005 113,200; 2006 110,600; 2007 110,000; 2008 110,600; 2009 109,000; 2010 108,200; 2011 106,300; 2012 107,000; 2013 111,000; 2014 113,400; 2015 115,900; 2016 113,500; 2017 114,500; 2018 113,700; 2019 112,900; 2020 110,300; 2021 109,300; 2022 109,800; 2023 110,800; 2024 111,200; 2025 110,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025110,0926,899$37,377 1.0%pub.
2024111,2186,942$36,562 0.4%pub.
2023110,8237,053$35,512 0.9%pub.
2022109,7907,184$33,924 0.5%pub.
2021109,2697,223$32,594 1.0%pub.
2020110,3317,191$32,126 2.3%pub.
2019112,9077,165$28,594 0.7%pub.
2018113,6917,090$27,423 0.7%pub.
2017114,4577,012$26,895 0.8%pub.
2016113,5427,071$26,316 2.0%pub.

† 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 and Beverage Retailers in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth

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