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	Sep. 2020	Oct. 2020	Nov. 2020	Dec. 2020
Unemployment
Unemployment rate		7.2%	14.8%	6.8%	6.2%

(Source: Current Population Survey

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2019
Driver/sales workers	8,130
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	6,390
Industrial production managers	2,090
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	10,430
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	31,070
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	14,120
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	21,210

(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, 2019
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	17.26	18.37	35,910	38,210
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	29.00	30.09	60,330	62,590
Industrial production managers	51.87	55.15	107,890	114,710
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	16.24	16.73	33,790	34,810
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	17.63	19.19	36,670	39,910
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	26.82	30.73	55,780	63,930
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	20.57	23.00	42,790	47,850

(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	2016	2017	2018	2019
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	8	6	3	8
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.


Data series	2019
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	4.3
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	2.9
Cases involving days away from work	1.3
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	1.6
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. 2020	Oct. 2020	Nov. 2020	Dec. 2020
Producer price index	(p)161.9	(p)162.7	(p)164.5	(p)164.7
Percent change from previous month	(p)-0.2%	(p)0.5%	(p)1.1%	(p)0.1%
Import index	129.7	129.8	128.3	128.6
Percent change from previous month	0.0%	0.1%	-1.2%	0.2%
Export index	(r)124.7	127.2	(r)127.9	130.2
Percent change from previous month	(r)1.2%	(r)2.0%	(r)0.6%	(r)1.8%
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 2019	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020
Number of establishments
Private industry	13,203	13,432	(p)13,692	(p)13,786
Local government	3	3	(p)3	(p)3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity


Data series	2016	2017	2018	2019
Labor productivity index, output per hour	78.522	73.055	67.893	66.943
Percent change from previous year	-10.0	-7.0	-7.1	-1.4
Labor index, total labor hours	118.067	125.974	133.108	130.242
Percent change from previous year	8.2	6.7	5.7	-2.2
Output index	92.709	92.030	90.371	87.189
Percent change from previous year	-2.6	-0.7	-1.8	-3.5
Unit labor costs index	142.191	157.715	172.437	186.125
Percent change from previous year	10.2	10.9	9.3	7.9

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

Data extracted on: January 15, 2021