Washington · NAICS 445 · Annual, 2025
Food and Beverage Retailers in Washington
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 445 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Food and Beverage Retailers (NAICS 445) employed about 72,700 people in Washington across roughly 3,144 establishments, with average annual pay of $41,960.
Employment in Food and Beverage Retailers in Washington grew 18.8% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 57.9% below the all-industries average in Washington. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Washington are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 72,700Employment, 2025
- 3,144Establishments
- $41,960Avg. annual pay
- 2.0%Share of Washington jobs
- 0.96Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 61,200; 2005 62,900; 2006 61,500; 2007 62,500; 2008 63,300; 2009 63,100; 2010 62,700; 2011 62,800; 2012 63,400; 2013 65,100; 2014 66,300; 2015 68,200; 2016 68,300; 2017 70,200; 2018 70,200; 2019 70,900; 2020 73,000; 2021 76,100; 2022 70,800; 2023 71,800; 2024 72,000; 2025 72,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72,716 | 3,144 | $41,959 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2024 | 71,997 | 3,141 | $40,380 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 71,842 | 3,018 | $38,677 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 70,798 | 3,092 | $37,332 | 7.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 76,109 | 3,028 | $44,604 | 4.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 73,030 | 2,951 | $45,029 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 70,910 | 2,951 | $39,228 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 70,152 | 2,988 | $37,514 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 70,220 | 2,976 | $35,063 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2016 | 68,347 | 3,002 | $32,426 | 0.3% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 and Beverage Retailers in Washington, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for food and beverage retailers in Washington. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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