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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.

Industries in the Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing subsector manufacture beverages and tobacco products. The industry group, Beverage Manufacturing, includes three types of establishments: (1) those that manufacture nonalcoholic beverages; (2) those that manufacture alcoholic beverages through the fermentation process; and (3) those that produce distilled alcoholic beverages. Ice manufacturing, while not a beverage, is included with nonalcoholic beverage manufacturing because it uses the same production process as water purification. The industry group, Tobacco Manufacturing, includes two types of establishments: (1) those engaged in redrying and stemming tobacco and, (2) those that manufacture tobacco products, such as cigarettes and cigars.

North American Industry Classification System

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	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022	Jan. 2023
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		5.7%	5.5%	4.0%	1.8%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2021
Driver/sales workers	5,650
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	6,760
Industrial production managers	2,160
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	12,720
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	25,720
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	14,860
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	20,190

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage 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, 2021
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	18.43	21.06	38,340	43,800
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	29.63	31.55	61,620	65,630
Industrial production managers	56.12	57.03	116,720	118,630
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	21.22	20.21	44,140	42,030
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	20.53	22.06	42,700	45,890
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	26.31	29.28	54,720	60,910
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	22.05	23.16	45,850	48,180

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage 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	2018	2019	2020	2021
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	3	8	9	6
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.


Data series	2021
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	4.2
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	3.0
Cases involving days away from work	1.5
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.5
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	Sep. 2022	Oct. 2022	Nov. 2022	Dec. 2022
Producer price index	(p)187.819	(p)188.220	(p)190.520	(p)189.973
Percent change from previous month	(p)0.9%	(p)0.2%	(p)1.2%	(p)-0.3%
Import index	134.5	134.4	(r)134.6	135.2
Percent change from previous month	0.1%	-0.1%	(r)0.1%	(r)0.4%
Export index	142.1	142.8	144.8	145.9
Percent change from previous month	-1.9%	0.5%	1.4%	0.8%
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	3rd quarter 2021	4th quarter 2021	1st quarter 2022	2nd quarter 2022
Number of establishments
Private industry	14,978	15,184	(p)15,441	(p)15,665
Local government	3	3	(p)3	(p)3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity


Data series	2018	2019	2020	2021
Labor productivity index, output per hour	69.066	69.564	67.061	56.695
Percent change from previous year	-7.4	0.7	-3.6	-15.5
Labor index, total labor hours	140.512	136.532	135.011	157.397
Percent change from previous year	5.4	-2.8	-1.1	16.6
Output index	97.046	94.977	90.540	89.236
Percent change from previous year	-2.3	-2.1	-4.7	-1.4
Unit labor costs index	155.167	161.574	173.259	191.492
Percent change from previous year	9.6	4.1	7.2	10.5

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

Data extracted on: February 06, 2023