Employment in wineries up 153 percent from 2001 to 2017

Employment in wineries exceeded 64,000 jobs in 2017. That is an increase of 153 percent from the 25,000 winery jobs in 2001. The number of wineries in the United States has also grown rapidly, reaching more than 4,300 in 2017, compared with about 1,000 in 2001.

View Chart Data Employment and number of establishments in wineries, 2001–17 annual averages Year Employment Establishments 2001 25,363 1,066 2002 26,620 1,251 2003 29,905 1,410 2004 31,470 1,565 2005 33,565 1,700 2006 35,899 1,923 2007 37,921 2,112 2008 40,160 2,311 2009 40,100 2,456 2010 40,830 2,616 2011 42,231 2,771 2012 45,351 2,978 2013 48,386 3,201 2014 52,879 3,560 2015 57,003 3,848 2016 60,436 4,083 2017(p) 64,139 4,308

About 58 percent of all winery jobs in 2017 were in California (36,924). Washington, Oregon, and New York were the only other states with winery employment greater than 3,000 in 2017.

View Chart Data Winery employment by state, 2017 annual averages State Employment Alabama 13 Arizona 281 California 36,924 Connecticut 321 Florida 362 Georgia 208 Idaho 197 Illinois 575 Indiana 875 Iowa 414 Kansas 102 Kentucky 143 Maryland 305 Massachusetts 241 Michigan 992 Minnesota 303 Missouri 890 Montana 59 New Hampshire 133 New Jersey 609 New Mexico 205 New York 3,012 North Carolina 695 Ohio 875 Oklahoma 74 Oregon 3,145 Pennsylvania 1,789 South Carolina 50 South Dakota 118 Tennessee 452 Texas 1,736 Vermont 191 Virginia 2,397 Washington 3,940 West Virginia 24 Wisconsin 534 Wyoming 25

These data are from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. Data for 2017 are preliminary. For more data on establishments, employment, and wages, see the QCEW data retrieval tool. If you are interested in data about wineries, you also might like to see our Spotlight on Statistics on breweries.