Industries at a Glance

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	Jul. 2019	Aug. 2019	Sep. 2019	Oct. 2019
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		1.1%	0.2%	1.9%	5.4%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2018
Driver/sales workers	7,440
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	6,370
Industrial production managers	2,310
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	9,110
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	30,540
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	12,510
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	19,980

(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, 2018
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	17.12	18.16	35,610	37,770
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	28.30	29.39	58,860	61,140
Industrial production managers	48.71	52.83	101,320	109,880
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	14.79	15.48	30,760	32,200
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	16.54	18.33	34,400	38,130
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	26.09	30.44	54,260	63,310
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	19.61	21.82	40,780	45,390

(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	2014	2015	2016	2017
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	5	11	8	6
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.


Data series	2018
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	4.7
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	3.1
Cases involving days away from work	1.3
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.8
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	Jun. 2019	Jul. 2019	Aug. 2019	Sep. 2019
Producer price index	(p)157.6	(p)157.6	(p)157.8	(p)157.8
Percent change from previous month	(p)0.0%	(p)0.0%	(p)0.1%	(p)0.0%
Import index	122.9	123.0	(r)126.0	125.5
Percent change from previous month	-0.1%	0.1%	(r)2.4%	(r)-0.4%
Export index	122.4	123.4	123.5	122.3
Percent change from previous month	0.4%	0.8%	0.1%	-1.0%
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	2nd quarter 2018	3rd quarter 2018	4th quarter 2018	1st quarter 2019
Number of establishments
Private industry	11,945	12,208	12,398	(p)12,591
Local government	2	2	2	(p)3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity


Data series	2015	2016	2017	2018
Labor productivity index, output per hour	87.257	78.526	71.477	66.350
Percent change from previous year	-0.4	-10.0	-9.0	-7.2
Labor index, total labor hours	109.120	118.067	125.974	132.587
Percent change from previous year	3.6	8.2	6.7	5.2
Output index	95.215	92.713	90.042	87.972
Percent change from previous year	3.2	-2.6	-2.9	-2.3
Unit labor costs index	129.053	142.204	155.271	165.543
Percent change from previous year	5.9	10.2	9.2	6.6

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

Data extracted on: November 13, 2019