Rhode Island · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in Rhode Island

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in Rhode Island, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 52,300 people in Rhode Island across roughly 3,314 establishments, with average annual pay of $31,110.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Rhode Island grew 34.4% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 56.3% below the all-industries average in Rhode Island. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 52,300. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Rhode Island are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 52,300Employment, 2025
  • 3,314Establishments
  • $31,110Avg. annual pay
  • 10.5%Share of Rhode Island jobs
  • 1.15Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Rhode Island, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 42,400 to 52,300.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 42,400; 2005 42,700; 2006 42,500; 2007 43,200; 2008 42,900; 2009 41,300; 2010 42,000; 2011 42,600; 2012 44,100; 2013 45,200; 2014 46,400; 2015 47,300; 2016 48,200; 2017 48,800; 2018 50,100; 2019 52,100; 2020 39,000; 2021 44,800; 2022 49,700; 2023 51,100; 2024 51,900; 2025 52,300.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202552,3453,314$31,112 0.8%pub.
202451,9373,314$30,129 1.5%pub.
202351,1493,309$29,173 2.9%pub.
202249,7213,289$27,904 10.9%pub.
202144,8183,264$26,357 15.0%pub.
202038,9553,217$23,550 25.2%pub.
201952,0913,224$22,737 4.0%pub.
201850,0793,140$21,451 2.6%pub.
201748,8113,084$20,451 1.3%pub.
201648,2013,021$19,719 1.9%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 2 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of accommodation and food servicesLQSource
721Accommodation6,28612.0%0.97est. · 1.00
722Food Services and Drinking Places46,05988.0%1.18est. · 1.00

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.

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Accommodation and Food Services in Rhode Island, quarterly, at full depth

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