Tennessee · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025
Food Services and Drinking Places in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 279,900 people in Tennessee across roughly 14,150 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,540.
Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Tennessee grew 20.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 62.3% below the all-industries average in Tennessee. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 279,900Employment, 2025
- 14,150Establishments
- $26,540Avg. annual pay
- 8.6%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.10Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 192,800; 2005 200,100; 2006 206,700; 2007 211,300; 2008 209,600; 2009 202,700; 2010 202,700; 2011 206,700; 2012 216,000; 2013 224,400; 2014 232,300; 2015 240,800; 2016 250,100; 2017 256,200; 2018 261,800; 2019 267,600; 2020 232,300; 2021 247,800; 2022 265,500; 2023 277,900; 2024 280,600; 2025 279,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 279,932 | 14,150 | $26,538 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 280,596 | 14,586 | $25,731 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 277,879 | 14,061 | $24,988 | 4.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 265,495 | 13,366 | $24,094 | 7.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 247,818 | 12,839 | $22,285 | 6.7% | pub. |
| 2020 | 232,337 | 12,432 | $19,357 | 13.2% | pub. |
| 2019 | 267,570 | 12,074 | $18,809 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2018 | 261,785 | 11,749 | $18,149 | 2.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 256,249 | 11,412 | $17,440 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2016 | 250,090 | 10,999 | $16,840 | 3.9% | pub. |
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.
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Food Services and Drinking Places in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food services and drinking places in Tennessee. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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