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Three cheers for bartenders on Bartender Appreciation Day
December 01, 2023
The first Friday in December is Bartender Appreciation Day, so we raise our glasses and present some BLS data related to these master mixologists who shake, stir, pour, and serve drinks in food services and drinking places and other industries. Nationwide, bartender employment was 613,070 in May 2022. The largest numbers of bartender employment was in large metropolitan areas. For example, the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, Illinois-Indiana-Wisconsin, and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California, metropolitan areas each had about 20,000 bartender jobs, while the New York-Newark-Jersey City, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania, metropolitan area had over 29,000. But compared with the nation as a whole, the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas had lower concentrations of bartenders, while the concentration of bartenders in the Chicago area was slightly higher than average.
Employment concentration of bartenders by metropolitan area, location quotients, May 2022
Area
Location quotient
Employment
Abilene, TX
0.97
280
Akron, OH
1.09
1,410
Albany, GA
0.66
160
Albany, OR
1.11
220
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
0.80
1,430
Albuquerque, NM
0.73
1,150
Alexandria, LA
0.79
200
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
1.12
1,680
Altoona, PA
1.40
330
Amarillo, TX
1.03
490
Ames, IA
1.86
360
Anchorage, AK
1.41
980
Ann Arbor, MI
0.79
690
Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL
0.33
60
Appleton, WI
1.85
920
Asheville, NC
1.82
1,480
Athens-Clarke County, GA
1.39
500
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
0.72
8,110
Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
3.77
1,940
Auburn-Opelika, AL
0.89
230
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
0.83
780
Austin-Round Rock, TX
1.13
5,500
Bakersfield, CA
0.50
670
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
0.85
4,560
Bangor, ME
1.05
280
Barnstable Town, MA
2.12
880
Baton Rouge, LA
1.00
1,600
Battle Creek, MI
1.06
220
Bay City, MI
1.43
200
Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
0.91
570
Beckley, WV
0.61
100
Bellingham, WA
1.33
490
Bend-Redmond, OR
1.65
600
Billings, MT
2.16
780
Binghamton, NY
1.35
530
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
0.41
840
Bismarck, ND
2.09
620
Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
0.71
210
Bloomington, IL
1.07
390
Bloomington, IN
1.38
410
Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA
1.37
230
Boise City, ID
1.04
1,540
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH
1.23
13,740
Boulder, CO
1.43
1,130
Bowling Green, KY
0.56
170
Bremerton-Silverdale, WA
1.22
460
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT
1.18
1,920
Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
0.86
530
Brunswick, GA
1.45
250
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
1.00
2,150
Burlington, NC
0.63
170
Burlington-South Burlington, VT
1.39
680
California-Lexington Park, MD
0.75
150
Canton-Massillon, OH
1.16
770
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
1.33
1,580
Cape Girardeau, MO-IL
1.17
210
Carbondale-Marion, IL
1.50
320
Carson City, NV
1.50
180
Casper, WY
1.94
300
Cedar Rapids, IA
1.35
780
Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA
1.18
280
Champaign-Urbana, IL
1.95
830
Charleston, WV
0.52
220
Charleston-North Charleston, SC
1.36
2,000
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
0.84
4,440
Charlottesville, VA
0.95
430
Chattanooga, TN-GA
0.57
590
Cheyenne, WY
1.55
300
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
1.10
20,130
Chico, CA
1.29
420
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
1.05
4,640
Clarksville, TN-KY
0.71
270
Cleveland, TN
0.49
90
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
1.03
4,210
Coeur d'Alene, ID
1.43
400
College Station-Bryan, TX
1.18
600
Colorado Springs, CO
1.24
1,560
Columbia, MO
1.17
460
Columbia, SC
0.53
820
Columbus, GA-AL
0.72
340
Columbus, IN
0.54
110
Columbus, OH
0.84
3,680
Corpus Christi, TX
1.30
980
Corvallis, OR
0.99
150
Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
1.85
910
Cumberland, MD-WV
1.59
240
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
0.75
11,830
Dalton, GA
0.33
90
Danbury, CT
1.08
330
Danville, IL
1.74
180
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
1.30
420
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL
1.71
1,250
Dayton, OH
0.93
1,400
Decatur, AL
0.30
70
Decatur, IL
1.33
250
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
1.49
1,280
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
1.38
8,880
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
1.35
2,080
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
0.78
6,040
Dothan, AL
0.60
140
Dover, DE
1.02
280
Dover-Durham, NH-ME
1.09
230
Dubuque, IA
1.59
380
Duluth, MN-WI
2.92
1,480
Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
0.56
760
East Stroudsburg, PA
1.93
430
Eau Claire, WI
2.22
760
El Centro, CA
0.45
120
El Paso, TX
1.10
1,440
Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY
0.54
120
Elkhart-Goshen, IN
0.41
240
Elmira, NY
1.10
150
Enid, OK
1.24
120
Erie, PA
2.00
970
Eugene, OR
1.30
830
Evansville, IN-KY
0.97
610
Fairbanks, AK
1.57
220
Fargo, ND-MN
2.25
1,300
Farmington, NM
0.33
60
Fayetteville, NC
0.66
350
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO
0.64
680
Flagstaff, AZ
1.47
380
Flint, MI
1.09
580
Florence, SC
0.49
180
Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
0.53
120
Fond du Lac, WI
1.70
320
Fort Collins, CO
1.52
1,070
Fort Smith, AR-OK
0.79
350
Fort Wayne, IN
0.81
730
Fresno, CA
0.62
1,030
Gadsden, AL
0.46
60
Gainesville, FL
0.98
560
Gainesville, GA
0.44
170
Gettysburg, PA
2.02
270
Glens Falls, NY
1.12
230
Goldsboro, NC
0.60
100
Grand Forks, ND-MN
2.75
560
Grand Island, NE
1.49
260
Grand Junction, CO
1.35
360
Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
0.87
1,980
Grants Pass, OR
1.42
170
Great Falls, MT
2.80
410
Greeley, CO
0.97
430
Green Bay, WI
1.95
1,360
Greensboro-High Point, NC
0.64
930
Greenville, NC
0.79
260
Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC
0.56
960
Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS
1.67
1,030
Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
1.01
420
Hammond, LA
1.14
210
Hanford-Corcoran, CA
0.71
130
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA
1.10
1,460
Harrisonburg, VA
0.82
220
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
0.92
2,120
Hattiesburg, MS
0.73
190
Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
0.61
380
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC
1.97
640
Hinesville, GA
0.94
80
Homosassa Springs, FL
1.48
210
Hot Springs, AR
1.02
160
Houma-Thibodaux, LA
0.83
270
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
0.94
11,850
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
0.93
490
Huntsville, AL
0.51
500
Idaho Falls, ID
0.72
230
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
0.85
3,710
Iowa City, IA
1.84
690
Ithaca, NY
1.17
230
Jackson, MI
0.90
210
Jackson, MS
0.58
600
Jackson, TN
0.32
90
Jacksonville, FL
0.93
2,780
Jacksonville, NC
1.22
250
Janesville-Beloit, WI
2.31
630
Jefferson City, MO
0.84
250
Johnson City, TN
0.71
240
Johnstown, PA
2.74
540
Joplin, MO
0.81
270
Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI
2.56
780
Kalamazoo-Portage, MI
0.98
560
Kankakee, IL
1.19
210
Kansas City, MO-KS
0.97
4,220
Kennewick-Richland, WA
1.15
580
Killeen-Temple, TX
0.82
490
Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA
0.46
220
Kingston, NY
1.48
340
Knoxville, TN
0.66
1,090
Kokomo, IN
1.11
160
La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN
2.78
830
Lafayette, LA
1.05
830
Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
1.14
450
Lake Charles, LA
1.74
680
Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
1.48
330
Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
0.79
820
Lancaster, PA
1.14
1,140
Lansing-East Lansing, MI
0.91
770
Laredo, TX
0.62
260
Las Cruces, NM
0.75
230
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
2.79
11,850
Lawrence, KS
2.18
440
Lawton, OK
0.97
170
Lebanon, PA
1.51
310
Leominster-Gardner, MA
1.66
350
Lewiston, ID-WA
1.17
130
Lewiston-Auburn, ME
0.78
150
Lexington-Fayette, KY
0.86
950
Lima, OH
0.92
190
Lincoln, NE
1.35
970
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
0.44
620
Logan, UT-ID
0.24
70
Longview, TX
0.68
260
Longview, WA
0.97
160
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
0.79
20,030
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
0.82
2,200
Lubbock, TX
1.13
690
Lynchburg, VA
0.56
220
Macon, GA
0.72
290
Madera, CA
0.48
100
Madison, WI
1.77
2,830
Manchester, NH
1.01
450
Manhattan, KS
1.24
200
Mankato-North Mankato, MN
1.84
410
Mansfield, OH
1.12
220
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
0.60
690
Medford, OR
1.04
370
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
0.50
1,290
Merced, CA
0.41
130
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
0.97
10,510
Michigan City-La Porte, IN
1.53
250
Midland, MI
0.59
90
Midland, TX
0.79
340
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
1.88
6,240
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
1.36
10,650
Missoula, MT
2.77
710
Mobile, AL
0.57
400
Modesto, CA
0.70
550
Monroe, LA
0.75
230
Monroe, MI
1.21
190
Montgomery, AL
0.40
260
Morgantown, WV
1.17
310
Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
0.97
200
Muncie, IN
0.86
160
Muskegon, MI
1.41
360
Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
2.10
1,500
Napa, CA
1.48
460
Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL
1.55
1,010
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
0.77
3,290
New Bedford, MA
1.51
410
New Bern, NC
0.75
140
New Haven, CT
0.98
1,160
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
1.78
3,830
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
0.77
29,360
Niles-Benton Harbor, MI
1.60
390
North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
1.32
1,700
Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI
1.75
870
Ocala, FL
0.98
450
Ocean City, NJ
2.89
480
Odessa, TX
1.03
310
Ogden-Clearfield, UT
0.38
440
Oklahoma City, OK
0.98
2,550
Olympia-Tumwater, WA
0.95
480
Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
1.70
3,330
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
1.24
6,690
Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
1.95
740
Owensboro, KY
0.52
110
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
0.84
1,090
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
1.29
1,220
Panama City, FL
1.59
540
Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
1.09
160
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
1.25
940
Peoria, IL
1.54
1,030
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
0.95
10,910
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
0.90
8,250
Pittsburgh, PA
1.39
6,070
Pittsfield, MA
1.56
250
Pocatello, ID
1.22
180
Port St. Lucie, FL
1.22
790
Portland-South Portland, ME
1.53
1,290
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
1.17
5,700
Portsmouth, NH-ME
1.65
620
Prescott, AZ
1.68
460
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA
1.14
2,650
Provo-Orem, UT
0.20
230
Pueblo, CO
1.18
310
Punta Gorda, FL
1.70
360
Racine, WI
2.01
610
Raleigh, NC
0.87
2,420
Rapid City, SD
2.04
590
Reading, PA
1.31
900
Redding, CA
0.84
240
Reno, NV
1.49
1,540
Richmond, VA
0.70
1,820
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
0.64
4,360
Roanoke, VA
0.55
330
Rochester, MN
1.62
790
Rochester, NY
0.94
1,890
Rockford, IL
1.34
760
Rocky Mount, NC
0.39
90
Rome, GA
0.55
90
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
0.82
3,490
Saginaw, MI
0.96
310
Salem, OR
1.13
820
Salinas, CA
0.81
610
Salisbury, MD-DE
2.22
1,500
Salt Lake City, UT
0.57
1,830
San Angelo, TX
1.14
230
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
1.00
4,350
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
1.07
6,580
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
0.85
8,450
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
0.55
2,540
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA
1.28
630
Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
1.30
520
Santa Fe, NM
1.09
270
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
1.28
1,090
Santa Rosa, CA
1.09
920
Savannah, GA
1.32
1,020
Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA
1.08
1,110
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
0.92
7,770
Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL
1.44
330
Sebring, FL
1.25
140
Sheboygan, WI
1.81
440
Sherman-Denison, TX
0.72
140
Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
0.98
680
Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
1.32
180
Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
1.39
500
Sioux Falls, SD
1.45
970
South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI
1.09
570
Spartanburg, SC
0.52
330
Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA
0.95
990
Springfield, IL
1.59
670
Springfield, MA-CT
1.37
1,810
Springfield, MO
0.96
850
Springfield, OH
0.87
170
St. Cloud, MN
1.68
700
St. George, UT
0.57
190
St. Joseph, MO-KS
0.95
210
St. Louis, MO-IL
1.25
6,770
State College, PA
1.37
370
Staunton-Waynesboro, VA
0.65
130
Stockton-Lodi, CA
0.44
500
Sumter, SC
0.45
70
Syracuse, NY
1.03
1,230
Tallahassee, FL
0.99
720
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
1.31
7,390
Terre Haute, IN
1.45
380
Texarkana, TX-AR
0.65
150
The Villages, FL
1.18
180
Toledo, OH
1.06
1,250
Topeka, KS
0.75
350
Trenton, NJ
0.57
560
Tucson, AZ
1.17
1,830
Tulsa, OK
1.09
1,930
Tuscaloosa, AL
0.82
340
Twin Falls, ID
0.93
180
Tyler, TX
0.61
270
Urban Honolulu, HI
1.22
2,150
Utica-Rome, NY
1.25
590
Valdosta, GA
0.92
200
Vallejo-Fairfield, CA
0.70
400
Victoria, TX
0.98
150
Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ
0.66
170
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
0.68
2,040
Visalia-Porterville, CA
0.33
220
Waco, TX
0.81
410
Walla Walla, WA
1.28
140
Warner Robins, GA
0.77
240
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
0.81
10,180
Waterbury, CT
1.09
300
Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA
1.63
570
Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
1.53
240
Wausau, WI
1.90
540
Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
1.47
220
Wenatchee, WA
1.54
310
Wheeling, WV-OH
1.31
320
Wichita Falls, TX
1.16
270
Wichita, KS
0.97
1,190
Williamsport, PA
1.86
370
Wilmington, NC
1.55
880
Winchester, VA-WV
0.66
170
Winston-Salem, NC
0.71
790
Worcester, MA-CT
1.19
1,390
Yakima, WA
0.92
370
York-Hanover, PA
1.17
860
Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA
1.24
1,020
Yuba City, CA
0.74
150
Yuma, AZ
1.17
330
Employment concentrations for an occupation can be measured with location quotients. A location quotient greater than 1.0 means an occupation’s share of employment in the area is greater than its share of employment in the nation. For example, approximately 15.6 of every 1,000 jobs in the Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, area were bartender jobs, while at the national level, the number was 4.1 of every 1,000. Dividing 15.6 by 4.1 produces a location quotient of 3.8 for bartenders in the Atlantic City area, the highest concentration among metropolitan areas. Duluth, Minnesota-Wisconsin, and Ocean City, New Jersey, (each with a location quotient of 2.9) had nearly three times the concentration of bartender jobs as the nation and were also among the metropolitan areas with the highest concentrations of this occupation.
Location quotients for bartenders ranged from 2.7 to 2.8 in six other metropolitan areas: Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Grand Forks, North Dakota-Minnesota; Missoula, Montana; La Crosse-Onalaska, Wisconsin-Minnesota; Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, Nevada; and Great Falls, Montana.
Among the metropolitan areas with low location quotients for bartenders were Provo-Orem, Utah; Logan, Utah-Idaho; and Decatur, Alabama (each 0.3 or lower).
Location quotients for bartenders in the nation's largest metropolitan areas in May 2022 were between these extremes: 0.8 in the New York and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, and 1.1 in the Chicago area.
United States Department of Labor
