Utah · NAICS 72 · Annual, 2025
Accommodation and Food Services in Utah
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 72 in Utah, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Accommodation and Food Services (NAICS 72) employed about 144,900 people in Utah across roughly 7,417 establishments, with average annual pay of $26,470.
Employment in Accommodation and Food Services in Utah grew 28.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 61.8% below the all-industries average in Utah. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 144,900. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Utah are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 144,900Employment, 2025
- 7,417Establishments
- $26,470Avg. annual pay
- 8.3%Share of Utah jobs
- 0.91Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 86,300; 2005 87,900; 2006 91,200; 2007 94,900; 2008 97,300; 2009 93,500; 2010 93,400; 2011 95,800; 2012 99,700; 2013 104,300; 2014 108,200; 2015 112,700; 2016 115,800; 2017 118,900; 2018 123,800; 2019 127,900; 2020 113,000; 2021 123,600; 2022 135,000; 2023 142,200; 2024 144,000; 2025 144,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 144,902 | 7,417 | $26,474 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 143,996 | 7,230 | $25,599 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 142,170 | 6,934 | $24,831 | 5.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 135,013 | 6,701 | $23,783 | 9.2% | pub. |
| 2021 | 123,640 | 6,440 | $21,931 | 9.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 112,957 | 6,283 | $19,642 | 11.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 127,949 | 6,179 | $19,285 | 3.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 123,795 | 6,045 | $18,485 | 4.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 118,920 | 5,790 | $17,886 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 115,764 | 5,624 | $17,234 | 2.7% | 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of accommodation and food services | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 721 | Accommodation | 23,614 | 16.3% | 1.05 | pub. |
| 722 | Food Services and Drinking Places | 121,288 | 83.7% | 0.89 | pub. |
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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Accommodation and Food Services in Utah, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for accommodation and food services in Utah. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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