Dried and Dehydrated Food Manufacturing
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) drying (including freeze-dried) and/or dehydrating fruits, vegetables, and soup mixes and bouillon and/or (2) drying and/or dehydrating ingredients and packaging them with other purchased ingredients, such as rice and dry pasta. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
- Baseline
- Manufacturing v2
- Inherited from
- Manufacturing
- Companies mapped
- 0 of 0
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 311423- Establishments
- 276
- Employees
- 17,886
- Annual payroll
- $963.8M
- Payroll per employee
- $53.9K
- 1-472
- 5-939
- 10-1939
- 20-4949
- 50-9929
- 100-24932
- 250-4999
- 500-9995
Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.
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