Cheese Manufacturing
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in (1) manufacturing cheese products (except cottage cheese) from raw milk and/or processed milk products and/or (2) manufacturing cheese substitutes from soybean and other nondairy substances. 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 311513- Establishments
- 568
- Employees
- 60,731
- Annual payroll
- $3.9B
- Payroll per employee
- $63.9K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-499
- 5-963
- 10-1971
- 1000+3
- 20-4991
- 50-9970
- 100-24995
- 250-49956
- 500-99920
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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