Report: Craft-brewing industry employed over 1,700 in R.I. in 2018

PBN Staff

09/25/2019

THE craft and independent brewery sector employed 1,705 full-time equivalents in 2018 in Rhode Island. / COURTESY BREWERS ASSOCIATION — THE CRAFT and independent brewery sector employed 1,705 full-time equivalents in 2018 in Rhode Island. / COURTESY BREWERS ASSOCIATION

PROVIDENCE – The craft-brewing industry employed 1,705 full-time equivalent workers in Rhode Island in 2018 at breweries and brewpubs, including serving staff at brewpubs, according to an economic impact report from the Brewers Association Wednesday. The industry was said to have had a total paid labor income of $82.6 million in the state with an…