Wisconsin · NAICS 722 · Annual, 2025

Food Services and Drinking Places in Wisconsin

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 722 in Wisconsin, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Food Services and Drinking Places (NAICS 722) employed about 211,400 people in Wisconsin across roughly 13,668 establishments, with average annual pay of $21,660.

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Wisconsin grew 22.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 67.3% below the all-industries average in Wisconsin. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 211,400. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Wisconsin are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 211,400Employment, 2025
  • 13,668Establishments
  • $21,660Avg. annual pay
  • 7.2%Share of Wisconsin jobs
  • 0.92Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Food Services and Drinking Places in Wisconsin, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 185,800 to 211,400.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 185,800; 2005 189,700; 2006 192,800; 2007 194,000; 2008 192,000; 2009 187,600; 2010 186,700; 2011 186,900; 2012 190,300; 2013 194,100; 2014 195,500; 2015 201,800; 2016 204,900; 2017 208,200; 2018 208,700; 2019 209,700; 2020 172,500; 2021 186,800; 2022 196,400; 2023 206,700; 2024 211,300; 2025 211,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025211,35013,668$21,664 0.0%pub.
2024211,30913,370$21,036 2.2%pub.
2023206,67612,793$20,467 5.2%pub.
2022196,37712,491$19,617 5.1%est. · 1.00
2021186,77312,608$18,261 8.3%pub.
2020172,49312,589$16,290 17.7%pub.
2019209,67212,790$15,692 0.4%pub.
2018208,74912,772$15,122 0.2%pub.
2017208,24012,588$14,565 1.6%pub.
2016204,93412,380$14,004 1.6%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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Food Services and Drinking Places in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for food services and drinking places in Wisconsin. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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