South Carolina · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025

Accommodation and Food Services in South Carolina

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

In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 246,200 people in South Carolina across roughly 13,342 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,740.

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in South Carolina grew 22.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 58.1% below the all-industries average in South Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 246,200. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 246,200Employment, 2025
  • 13,342Establishments
  • $26,740Avg. annual pay
  • 10.6%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 1.16Location quotient

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 174,600 to 246,200.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 174,600; 2005 178,500; 2006 184,100; 2007 190,700; 2008 189,900; 2009 182,500; 2010 182,100; 2011 185,000; 2012 190,800; 2013 196,300; 2014 201,600; 2015 210,400; 2016 218,300; 2017 224,300; 2018 232,400; 2019 237,500; 2020 201,500; 2021 217,300; 2022 232,900; 2023 242,700; 2024 245,400; 2025 246,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025246,24313,342$26,741 0.3%est. · 1.00
2024245,43513,082$25,778 1.1%est. · 1.00
2023242,67312,581$24,624 4.2%est. · 1.00
2022232,93812,231$23,620 7.2%est. · 1.00
2021217,28911,592$22,009 7.8%est. · 1.00
2020201,54711,508$19,226 15.1%est. · 1.00
2019237,46211,311$18,587 2.2%est. · 1.00
2018232,43710,882$17,759 3.6%est. · 1.00
2017224,32810,490$17,641 2.7%pub.
2016218,34610,219$17,185 3.8%est. · 1.00

† 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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of accommodation and food servicesLQSource
721Accommodation32,56113.2%1.08pub.
722Food Services and Drinking Places213,68386.8%1.18est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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 South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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