Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing: NAICS 312

About the Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing subsector

The beverage and tobacco product manufacturing subsector is part of the manufacturing sector.

The beverage and tobacco product manufacturing subsector consists of these industry groups:

• Beverage Manufacturing: NAICS 3121
• Tobacco Manufacturing: NAICS 3122

Workforce Statistics

This section presents an overview of the beverage and tobacco product manufacturing industry, including the unemployment rate of those previously employed in the industry, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change

Unemployment

Data series	Back data	May 2017	Jun. 2017	Jul. 2017	Aug. 2017
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		2.7%	4.8%	4.2%	3.7%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2016
Driver/sales workers	5,920
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	5,660
Industrial production managers	2,290
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	7,940
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	28,900
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	10,270
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	15,560

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for beverage and tobacco product manufacturing.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Wages

This section presents data on recent hourly and annual wages for occupations commonly found in beverage and tobbaco product manufacturing.

Wages by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2016
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	16.13	16.67	33,560	34,670
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	27.31	28.69	56,800	59,680
Industrial production managers	48.03	52.18	99,900	108,540
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	13.04	14.10	27,120	29,320
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	16.24	18.23	33,780	37,930
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	23.67	28.28	49,220	58,820
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	18.19	20.07	37,830	41,740

(Source: Occupational Employment Statistics)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in beverage and tobacco product manufacturing. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition.

Data series	2012	2013	2014	2015
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	4	12	5	11
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

Data series	2015
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	5.3
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	3.8
Cases involving days away from work	1.4
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	2.4
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction. The import price index reflects the percentage change in prices paid to foreign producers for their goods and services within the U.S., while the export price index measures the percentage change in prices received by U.S. producers for goods and services sold outside the U.S.

Data series	Back data	May 2017	Jun. 2017	Jul. 2017	Aug. 2017
Producer price index		(p)148.2	(p)148.0	(p)148.4	(p)148.1
Percent change from previous month		(p)0.1%	(p)-0.1%	(p)0.3%	(p)-0.2%
Import index		118.4	118.7	(r)118.9	118.5
Percent change from previous month		0.2%	0.3%	(r)0.2%	(r)-0.3%
Export index		111.6	110.8	114.0	113.9
Percent change from previous month		1.0%	-0.7%	2.9%	-0.1%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

(Source: Producer Price Indexes, International Price Program)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in beverage and tobacco product manufacturing. Also included in this section is information on productivity, presented as the rate of change in output per hour of workers in the industry.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	2nd quarter 2016	3rd quarter 2016	4th quarter 2016	1st quarter 2017
Number of establishments
Private industry		9,661	9,957	10,194	(p)10,459
Local government		2	2	2	(p)2
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

Data series	Back data	2013	2014	2015	2016
Labor productivity index, output per hour		90.030	87.429	87.093	78.141
Percent change from previous year		-8.7	-2.9	-0.4	-10.3
Labor index, total labor hours		103.295	104.972	109.192	116.571
Percent change from previous year		10.1	1.6	4.0	6.8
Output index		92.996	91.776	95.099	91.090
Percent change from previous year		0.5	-1.3	3.6	-4.2
Unit labor costs index		116.993	122.468	128.954	146.371
Percent change from previous year		5.1	4.7	5.3	13.5

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

 

Data extracted on: September 19, 2017