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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	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025	Jun. 2025
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		1.3%	5.1%	1.6%	0.3%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2024
Driver/sales workers	4,690
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	6,880
Industrial production managers	2,860
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	11,370
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	29,230
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	13,790
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	24,600

(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, 2024
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	23.92	25.11	49,760	52,220
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	36.54	36.06	75,990	75,010
Industrial production managers	60.60	62.14	126,040	129,260
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	22.35	22.23	46,480	46,230
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	23.32	25.02	48,500	52,040
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	28.20	32.22	58,650	67,020
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	23.92	26.91	49,760	55,970

(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	2020	2021	2022	2023
Fatalities
Number of fatalities				7
There was a series break beginning with 2023 data due to NAICS 2022. Data for years prior to 2023 are available at www.bls.gov/iif.


Data series	2023
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	3.5
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	2.4
Cases involving days away from work	1.3
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.1
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	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025	Jun. 2025
Producer price index	(p)216.218	(p)217.288	(p)218.524	(p)218.859
Percent change from previous month	(p)0.3%	(p)0.5%	(p)0.6%	(p)0.2%
Import index	140.1	139.7	(r)137.0	131.0
Percent change from previous month	-0.8%	-0.3%	(r)-1.9%	(r)-4.4%
Export index	132.1	134.0	(r)132.9	134.0
Percent change from previous month	0.5%	1.4%	(r)-0.8%	(r)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	1st quarter 2024	2nd quarter 2024	3rd quarter 2024	4th quarter 2024
Number of establishments
Private industry	(p)16,722	(p)16,901	(p)17,026	(p)17,022
Local government	(p)4	(p)4	(p)4	(p)4
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.


Data series	2021	2022	2023	2024
Labor productivity, output per hour	-7.4	-12.4	-4.8	-4.2
Hours worked	12.1	11.4	2.4	0.1
Output	3.8	-2.5	-2.5	-4.1
Unit labor costs	5.4	13.5	8.1	8.6

(Source: Productivity)

Data extracted on: July 18, 2025