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, mass layoffs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change

Unemployment and Layoffs


Data series	Feb. 2013	Mar. 2013	Apr. 2013	May 2013
Unemployment
Unemployment rate	8.1%	5.9%	9.7%	7.0%
Layoffs
Mass layoff events	(1) -	7	(1) -
Initial claimants for unemployment benefits	(1) -	1,330	(1) -
Footnotes (1) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards.

(Source: Current Population Survey, Mass Layoff Statistics)

Extended Mass Layoffs


Data series	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012	4th quarter 2012	1st quarter 2013
Extended mass layoff events	(1) -	6	(P) 12	(P) 4
Separations	(1) -	656	(P) 1,449	(P) 965
Initial claimants	(1) -	688	(P) 1,489	(P) 1,134
Footnotes (1) Data do not meet BLS or state agency disclosure standards. (P) Preliminary

(Source: Mass Layoff Statistics)

Employment by Occupation


Data series	Employment, 2012
Driver/sales workers	8,160
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	5,240
Industrial production managers	1,770
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	10,840
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	20,420
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	9,640
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	10,300

(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, 2012
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Driver/sales workers	$15.18	$15.92	$31,580	$33,120
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers	$26.76	$27.73	$55,660	$57,670
Industrial production managers	$44.15	$48.41	$91,820	$100,690
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	$12.71	$13.77	$26,440	$28,650
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	$15.29	$16.35	$31,810	$34,020
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products	$23.27	$26.82	$48,400	$55,770
Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders	$18.70	$19.79	$38,890	$41,160

(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	2008	2009	2010	2011
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	13	13	5	6
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	6.8	6.4	6.4	6.9
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	4.7	4.6	4.4	5.3
Cases involving days away from work	2.0	1.7	1.9
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	2.7	2.8	2.6	2.5
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	Feb. 2013	Mar. 2013	Apr. 2013	May 2013
Producer price index	(P) 135.0	(P) 135.2	(P) 134.9	(P) 134.3
Percent change from previous month	(P) 0.1%	(P) 0.1%	(P) -0.2%	(P) -0.4%
Import index	113.5	113.5	(R) 113.3	113.4
Percent change from previous month	0.1%	0.0%	(R) -0.2%	(R) 0.1%
Export index	128.6	128.2	127.3	126.6
Percent change from previous month	0.7%	-0.3%	-0.7%	-0.5%
Footnotes (R) Revised (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


Data series	4th quarter 2011	1st quarter 2012	2nd quarter 2012	3rd quarter 2012
Number of establishments
Private industry	5,712	(P) 5,799	(P) 5,948	(P) 6,103
Local government	2	(P) 2	(P) 2	(P) 3
Footnotes (P) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity


Data series	2008	2009	2010	2011
Labor productivity index, output per hour	106.737	118.509	114.635	108.049
Percent change from previous year	-3.0	11.0	-3.3	-5.7
Labor index, total labor hours	94.985	84.443	86.621	93.003
Percent change from previous year	-4.2	-11.1	2.6	7.4
Output index	101.385	100.072	99.298	100.489
Percent change from previous year	-7.1	-1.3	-0.8	1.2
Unit labor costs index	110.476	105.057	106.505	108.306
Percent change from previous year	9.6	-4.9	1.4	1.7

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

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Data extracted on: June 18, 2013

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