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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

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Jun.
2024
Jul.
2024
Aug.
2024
Sep.
2024

Unemployment

Unemployment rate

4.3% 8.4% 2.5% 5.7%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation

Data series Employment,
2023

Driver/sales workers

5,390

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

6,820

Industrial production managers

2,280

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

11,930

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

26,090

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products

14,340

Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders

23,610

(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, 2023
Hourly Annual
Median Mean Median Mean

Driver/sales workers

23.56 24.24 49,000 50,410

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

33.98 34.22 70,680 71,170

Industrial production managers

51.82 57.83 107,780 120,290

Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand

21.18 21.42 44,050 44,550

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

21.93 23.36 45,610 48,580

Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products

27.41 31.60 57,000 65,730

Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders

23.13 26.18 48,110 54,460

(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 2019 2020 2021 2022

Fatalities

Number of fatalities

8 9 6 7

Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

Data series 2022

Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers

Total recordable cases

4.1

Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer

2.5

Cases involving days away from work

1.3

Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction

1.2

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.

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Jun.
2024
Jul.
2024
Aug.
2024
Sep.
2024

Producer price index

(p)209.037 (p)209.040 (p)211.373 (p)210.970

Percent change from previous month

  (p)-0.1% (p)0.0% (p)1.1% (p)-0.2%

Import index

142.1 142.4 142.6 143.2

Percent change from previous month

  -0.1% 0.2% 0.1% 0.4%

Export index

132.3 131.6 131.2 131.5

Percent change from previous month

  -1.5% -0.5% -0.3% 0.2%

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(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

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2nd quarter
2023
3rd quarter
2023
4th quarter
2023
1st quarter
2024

Number of establishments

Private industry

16,401 16,655 16,806 (p)16,966

Local government

3 3 6 (p)6

Footnotes
(p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

This section presents productivity and related data for the industry, presented as the percent change from the previous year. Measures of labor productivity, or output per hour, compare the growth in output to the growth in hours worked. Growth in unit labor costs represent the annual change in the labor cost of producing one unit of output.

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2020 2021 2022 2023

Labor productivity, output per hour

-3.4 -7.2 -12.5 -4.3

Hours worked

-1.4 11.9 11.0 2.0

Output

-4.8 3.8 -2.8 -2.4

Unit labor costs

7.1 5.5 12.7 7.9

(Source: Productivity)

 

Data extracted on: October 31, 2024