North Dakota · SOC 35-0000 · Annual, 2025
Food preparation and serving related occupations in North Dakota
Employment and average annual wage for SOC 35-0000 in North Dakota, 2004–2025, from DTG's OEWS-based estimates.
In 2025, about 36,300 people in North Dakota worked in food preparation and serving related occupations (SOC 35-0000), with an average annual wage of $36,330.
Employment in food preparation and serving related occupations in North Dakota grew 15.4% from 2020 to 2025. The average wage in this occupation group is 46.1% below the all-occupations average in North Dakota. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 36,300. Quarterly values, full occupation detail and projections to 2036 for North Dakota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 36,300Employment, 2025
- $36,330Mean annual wage
- 8.5%Share of North Dakota jobs
- 0.96Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,100; 2005 28,600; 2006 28,900; 2007 29,700; 2008 30,100; 2009 30,400; 2010 30,700; 2011 31,600; 2012 33,100; 2013 33,700; 2014 34,600; 2015 34,700; 2016 34,000; 2017 34,300; 2018 35,200; 2019 35,900; 2020 31,500; 2021 32,700; 2022 33,800; 2023 35,000; 2024 36,100; 2025 36,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Mean annual wage | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36,329 | $36,330 | 0.5% |
| 2024 | 36,144 | $35,366 | 3.4% |
| 2023 | 34,972 | $34,545 | 3.6% |
| 2022 | 33,762 | $32,877 | 3.3% |
| 2021 | 32,686 | $30,596 | 3.8% |
| 2020 | 31,483 | $29,126 | 12.4% |
| 2019 | 35,940 | $27,344 | 2.1% |
| 2018 | 35,206 | $26,686 | 2.7% |
| 2017 | 34,292 | $25,283 | 0.8% |
| 2016 | 34,011 | $25,024 | 1.9% |
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.
Notes
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Food preparation and serving related occupations in North Dakota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food preparation and serving related occupations in North Dakota. A free account shows every detailed occupation in the group, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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