Virginia · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025
Food and Beverage Retailers in Virginia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 86,200 people in Virginia across roughly 3,634 establishments, with average annual pay of $34,260.
Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in Virginia grew 31.1% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 57.2% below the all-industries average in Virginia. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 86,200. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 86,200Employment, 2025
- 3,634Establishments
- $34,260Avg. annual pay
- 2.1%Share of Virginia jobs
- 0.99Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 65,800; 2005 65,700; 2006 68,100; 2007 70,400; 2008 71,600; 2009 71,000; 2010 71,100; 2011 71,900; 2012 73,300; 2013 75,300; 2014 77,000; 2015 79,200; 2016 82,000; 2017 83,000; 2018 82,000; 2019 81,700; 2020 84,200; 2021 86,200; 2022 85,300; 2023 85,100; 2024 85,600; 2025 86,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 86,243 | 3,634 | $34,258 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2024 | 85,552 | 3,514 | $33,201 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 85,055 | 3,457 | $32,172 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2022 | 85,328 | 3,561 | $30,602 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 86,182 | 3,425 | $28,336 | 2.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 84,180 | 3,232 | $28,299 | 3.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 81,655 | 3,200 | $26,135 | 0.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 81,982 | 3,212 | $25,184 | 1.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 83,043 | 3,189 | $24,513 | 1.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 82,030 | 3,160 | $23,494 | 3.6% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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 and Beverage Retailers in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food and beverage retailers in Virginia. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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