France payroll employment: food, beverages, tobacco (A17)
France payroll employment: food, beverages, tobacco (A17) stood at 651.8 thousand persons in Q2 2026, according to INSEE – Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques (BDM). It is one of the indicators in the Payroll employment table (Value · Quarterly), with a complete series running from Q4 1970 to Q2 2026. The complete series with an interactive chart, free to download.
This indicator in the Payroll employment table
| Indicator | Q2-2026 | Q1-2026 | Q4-2025 | Q3-2025 | Q2-2025 | Q1-2025 | Q4-2024 | Q3-2024 | Q2-2024 | Q1-2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Payroll employment | |||||||||||
| Manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco - A17: C1 | 651.8 | 651 | 649.6 | 647.9 | 648.6 | 646.8 | 645.4 | 642.6 | 639.9 | 638.4 | |
| Manufacture of coke and refined petroleum products - A17: C2 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.8 | 8.8 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 | 8.7 |
Understanding france payroll employment: food, beverages, tobacco (A17)
Employment within enterprises processing agricultural raw materials into food products, beverages, and tobacco goods is recorded here in thousand persons. The scope spans industrial kitchens, bottling plants, slaughterhouses, and cigarette factories, distinguishing consumable goods production from broader manufacturing operations. Excluded are agricultural farm workers engaged in primary crop growing or livestock raising prior to industrial processing.
Evaluating these figures necessitates watching for harvest-driven seasonal cycles that cause predictable hiring peaks during agricultural processing windows. Flash estimates are subject to routine revisions as corporate tax filings reconcile temporary staffing records. Researchers comparing this series with retail food sales should note that employment changes reflect factory processing capacity rather than final consumer purchasing values.
Frequently asked questions
- Does this series include farmers growing crops for food production?
- Agricultural crop and livestock production is excluded; the measure counts only industrial processing and manufacturing workers.
- Why do food manufacturing headcounts show intra-year volatility?
- Seasonal harvests create concentrated periods of processing activity that require temporary surges in factory staffing.
- How do revisions affect early estimates in this sector?
- Initial figures are updated as comprehensive employer tax declarations replace provisional sample models.