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2022 Economic Census / NAICS 81

Other services (except public administration)

The four largest firms in Other services (except public administration) accounted for 4.6% of the industry's 2022 sales, value of shipments, or revenue, and its concentration (HHI 10) ranks 15 of 17 sectors in the Economic Census. What is HHI?

National employer-firm concentration for this sector, measured from sales, value of shipments, or revenue. Census categories are statistical groupings, not necessarily antitrust markets.

Revenue-based HHI

9.8

81
03,500
Same-level median 2318th percentile

National rank

#15

of 17 published

Sector rank

N/A

of 30 published

Largest 4 firms

4.6%

Share of industry revenue

Revenue

$720.9B

Sales, shipments, or revenue

Employer firms

529.7K

529,687

Employment

3.9M

3,867,221

Four source-bounded systems

Sector evidence passport

Open sector atlas

The passport juxtaposes four source-bounded sector signals for navigation. Each cell retains its own period, denominator, source, and rank universe; the cells are not combined into a sector score, merger rate, legal market, causal estimate, or assessment of competitive harm.

  • GeographyUnited StatesNational firm totals
  • UniverseEmployer firmsFirms with payroll
  • MeasurementRevenue concentrationSales, shipments, or revenue
  • Permitted useScreening onlyNot a legal market definition

Longitudinal sector pulse

How typical detailed industries changed inside Other services (except public administration)

Compare six strict-match medians, their publication coverage, and each sector's position among 17 economy-wide rows.

NAICS 81

Median HHI-point change across strict six-digit matches

+3.6 pts#7 highest change of 17 sectors

Economy median

+1.6 ptsAcross sector medians
2017 paired median
66.1
2022 paired median
77.7
Published pairs
22 of 38
Direction mix
16 up / 6 down

Interpretation

The typical published detailed-industry HHI moved +3.6 pts. This distribution statistic is separate from the official broad-sector HHI row.

Classification boundary: 0 changed and 2 new detailed rows remain outside strict deltas.

Sector rows summarize strict six-digit NAICS matches. Their medians are not sector HHI values, legal antitrust markets, liability findings, or causal estimates. Vintage medians and the median of row-level changes are distinct distribution statistics and need not reconcile. Publication coverage varies by metric, and revenue changes are nominal.

Census formation and sector context

Monthly formation signals beside annual sector structure

60 monthly observations for the exact NAICS 81 broad-sector contract.
Direct broad-sector join
Business Applications
44,741
Jul 2026 monthly count
Application annual change
+13.6%
Same month one year earlier
U.S. application share
7.7%
Share of national applications
High-propensity mix
11.6%
5,192 applications
Projected formations
2,277
Modeled four-quarter source projection
Establishment entry rate
10.0%
2023 annual BDS rate

Monthly source trajectory

Applications and high-propensity applications

Aug 2021 to Jul 2026
Business ApplicationsHigh-Propensity Business Applications
Sixty-month business application trajectory for Other services (except public administration)Business Applications and the high-propensity subset share one count axis. The chapter describes the selected broad sector.50K37.5K25K12.5K0Aug 2021Nov 2022Feb 2024May 2025Jul 2026
507,192 applications / latest 12 months64,259 high-propensity / latest 12 months

Source clocks

Four releases, three measurement systems

Business Formation Statistics
2026-07
monthly applications and projected formations
Business Dynamics Statistics
2023
annual employer-establishment flows
Economic Census structure
2022
median across detailed-industry HHI rows
Strict concentration history
2017-2022
same-code and same-label detailed pairs
Exact broad-sector boundary

NAICS 81 is the exact broad-sector contract used by this chapter. This atlas joins only exact broad-sector NAICS contracts across three separate Census systems: monthly Business Formation Statistics, annual Business Dynamics Statistics, and Economic Census industry structure. The release clocks, populations, denominators, and measures remain distinct. Positions are descriptive context, not composite competition scores, causal estimates, legal antitrust markets, or evidence that applications, entry, concentration, and competitive effects are interchangeable.

BLS labor and payroll context

Monthly labor demand beside payroll and earnings

Two BLS releases mapped through the sole declared NAICS 81 sector context.
Single-sector crosswalk
Job openings
4.5%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Hires
3.8%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Quits
2.8%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Layoffs + discharges
0.9%
Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
All employees
6M
6,038 thousand payroll jobs
Weekly hours
32.2
+0.2 hrs from year earlier
Hourly earnings
$34.05
+2.9% from year earlier

JOLTS worker flows

Openings and quits on native rate scales

Jul 2021 to Jun 2026
Job openings rateQuits rate
Sixty-month JOLTS openings and quits ratesJob openings and quits rates for the mapped Other services source group. The measures keep their published denominators and are not a labor-market power score.8.0%6.0%4.0%2.0%0.0%Jul 2021Oct 2022Jan 2024Apr 2025Jun 2026
+0.7 pp openings / year earlier+0.8 pp quits / year earlier

CES payroll context

Payroll jobs and nominal earnings, indexed

Aug 2021 = 100
Payroll jobsHourly earnings
Sixty-month CES payroll jobs and hourly earnings indexesPayroll jobs and nominal average hourly earnings for the mapped Other services source group, each independently indexed to 100 in the first displayed month. Native levels remain in the readouts.12511811010395Aug 2021Nov 2022Feb 2024May 2025Jul 2026
+0.8% payroll jobs / year earlier+2.9% nominal earnings / year earlier

Declared classification bridge

One profile, two source-owned industry groups

Selected Census parent
NAICS 81
Other services (except public administration)
JOLTS group
810000
Other services
CES supersector
80
Other services
Mapped Census sectors
1
81

Independent release clocks

Two monthly systems, no merged series

JOLTS worker flows
2026-06
60 displayed months · latest preliminary
CES payroll context
2026-07
60 displayed months · latest preliminary
Single-sector bridge boundary

NAICS 81 is the sole declared Census-sector context for both the Other services JOLTS group and the Other services CES supersector, but the Census and BLS classification contracts remain distinct. JOLTS industry rates describe national labor demand and worker-flow activity in broad BLS industry groups. They do not measure employer concentration, monopsony power, wages, bargaining power, job quality, local labor-market conditions, worker substitutability, a legal labor market, or the competitive cause of a change. The job openings rate uses employment plus openings as its denominator. Hires, quits, and layoffs and discharges use employment. Rates may be compared across published industry groups within the same measure, but different measures must not be added together or treated as a common flow balance. CES employment, hours, and earnings describe national payroll jobs and establishment averages in broad private-industry groups. They do not measure unique workers, vacancies, employer concentration, monopsony power, bargaining power, job quality, a local or occupational labor market, a legal antitrust market, or the competitive cause of a change. All-employee hourly earnings are current-dollar averages and are not adjusted for inflation. Changes can reflect shifts in industry and worker composition. Employment is reported in thousands of payroll jobs, so multiple jobholders may be counted more than once. Compare industries only within the same published measure; do not add or ratio the three measures into a common score. The two releases remain separate and are not combined into a labor-market, monopsony, competition, welfare, or causal score.

BEA industry output context

Other services in the U.S. value-added map

Exact broad-sector bridge from Census NAICS 81 to BEA line 88.
Exact sector context
GDP share
2.1%
2025 current-dollar composition
Real growth
+0.3%
2026-Q1 annualized BEA convention
Growth contribution
+0.01 pp
2026-Q1 contribution to real GDP growth
Real quantity index
93.3
2026-Q1 / 2017=100
Current value added
$672.02B
2026-Q1 seasonally adjusted annual rate

Annual composition trajectory

Share of current-dollar GDP

1997-2025
Other services annual share of current-dollar GDPBEA value-added share from 1997 through 2025. This is an accounting composition measure, not a market share.4.0%3.3%2.5%1.8%1.0%19972004201120182025
2.7%1997-0.6 pplong-run shift2.1%2025
Exact broad-sector boundary

BEA line 88 and Census NAICS 81 share the declared broad-sector classification used by this profile. BEA value added measures an industry's contribution to GDP. It is not sales, gross output, profit, a markup, market share, concentration, a legal antitrust market, or evidence of competitive harm or causation. Current-dollar value-added shares reflect both prices and quantities. Real value added uses chained 2017 dollars and is suitable for growth comparisons, but chained-dollar industry components are not additive. Quarterly levels are seasonally adjusted at annual rates, and quarterly growth and contribution measures retain BEA's published annualized convention. The BEA table contains nested industries, cross-industry aggregates, and addenda. Only the 20 major-industry rows form the composition view; summing those rows with their children, parent aggregates, or addenda would double count activity.

BEA domestic production requirements

Other services, except government in the U.S. production network

Exact published code bridge from Census NAICS 81 to BEA summary industry 81.
Exact 71-industry line
BEA lines in scope
1
one exact published industry
Annual matrices
28
1997-2024
Raw matrix cells
1,988
retained without aggregation
Net requirement
1.6259
domestic output per $1 final use
Own requirement
1.0120
diagonal direct + indirect

Strongest external requirements

Suppliers required by Other services, except government

Exact accounting line

Census NAICS 81 and BEA summary industry 81 share the exact published code used by this profile. A domestic total-requirements coefficient reports the U.S. output required from the supplier-row industry, directly and indirectly, per dollar of output delivered to final use by the buyer-column industry. It is not observed spending, a contract, a firm supplier link, market share, concentration, a legal antitrust market, competitive harm, or causation. Rows are supplying industries and columns are buyer industries delivering output to final use. Reading down a buyer column traces upstream requirements; reading across a supplier row traces the industries whose final-use output requires that supplier. BEA requirements tables use fixed input structures, constant returns to scale, and no input substitution. Coefficients are average, ex-post industry relationships; domestic import adjustments are estimated and do not identify firm-specific sourcing. Diagonal values include an industry's own direct and indirect requirements. Published negative coefficients are retained as accounting adjustments and must not be ranked as positive supply requirements.

Longitudinal sector profile

Business formation and job flows since 1978

46 annual BDS records compare Other services (except public administration) with the national series while preserving the BDS universe.
Other services (except public administration)
9.993%
2023 sector rate
United States
10.608%
2023 national rate
Sector gap
-0.615 pp
Below U.S. rate
Joined-sector rank
#11
of 17 by magnitude

Establishment entry rate

Other services (except public administration) and the United States

Entering establishments as a share of the Census BDS establishment denominator.
Other services (except public administration)United States
2023Other services (except public administration)9.993%United States10.608%Gap -0.615 pp
1978: United States 15.146%; Other services (except public administration) 13.711%1979: United States 13.970%; Other services (except public administration) 12.738%1980: United States 12.806%; Other services (except public administration) 11.488%1981: United States 12.797%; Other services (except public administration) 11.202%1982: United States 12.464%; Other services (except public administration) 11.394%1983: United States 13.389%; Other services (except public administration) 12.665%1984: United States 14.534%; Other services (except public administration) 18.519%1985: United States 13.810%; Other services (except public administration) 12.816%1986: United States 14.095%; Other services (except public administration) 12.529%1987: United States 14.325%; Other services (except public administration) 12.421%1988: United States 13.959%; Other services (except public administration) 12.070%1989: United States 13.368%; Other services (except public administration) 11.734%1990: United States 12.683%; Other services (except public administration) 11.212%1991: United States 12.358%; Other services (except public administration) 10.443%1992: United States 11.577%; Other services (except public administration) 10.004%1993: United States 11.509%; Other services (except public administration) 9.471%1994: United States 11.885%; Other services (except public administration) 9.561%1995: United States 12.058%; Other services (except public administration) 9.702%1996: United States 11.795%; Other services (except public administration) 9.599%1997: United States 12.200%; Other services (except public administration) 9.460%1998: United States 11.438%; Other services (except public administration) 9.274%1999: United States 11.115%; Other services (except public administration) 8.570%2000: United States 10.848%; Other services (except public administration) 8.325%2001: United States 10.990%; Other services (except public administration) 8.243%2002: United States 11.911%; Other services (except public administration) 9.501%2003: United States 11.425%; Other services (except public administration) 9.107%2004: United States 11.511%; Other services (except public administration) 8.676%2005: United States 11.615%; Other services (except public administration) 8.820%2006: United States 12.495%; Other services (except public administration) 9.100%2007: United States 11.761%; Other services (except public administration) 9.146%2008: United States 10.307%; Other services (except public administration) 8.401%2009: United States 9.281%; Other services (except public administration) 7.557%2010: United States 9.495%; Other services (except public administration) 7.749%2011: United States 9.886%; Other services (except public administration) 7.859%2012: United States 10.018%; Other services (except public administration) 8.138%2013: United States 9.807%; Other services (except public administration) 7.871%2014: United States 9.906%; Other services (except public administration) 7.936%2015: United States 10.025%; Other services (except public administration) 8.013%2016: United States 10.194%; Other services (except public administration) 8.286%2017: United States 9.675%; Other services (except public administration) 8.174%2018: United States 9.414%; Other services (except public administration) 7.970%2019: United States 9.613%; Other services (except public administration) 8.048%2020: United States 9.637%; Other services (except public administration) 8.470%2021: United States 10.845%; Other services (except public administration) 9.587%2022: United States 11.651%; Other services (except public administration) 10.817%2023: United States 10.608%; Other services (except public administration) 9.993%
1978
13.711%
-3.718 pp to latest
2018
7.97%
Higher than 2018
Series high / 1984
18.519%
Highest published rate
Series low / 2009
7.557%
Lowest published rate

Exact annual series

Sector and national values

2023 back to 1978
Establishment entry rate for Other services (except public administration) and the United States, with the sector-minus-national gap.
Year81United StatesGap
20239.993%10.608%-0.615 pp
202210.817%11.651%-0.834 pp
20219.587%10.845%-1.258 pp
20208.47%9.637%-1.167 pp
20198.048%9.613%-1.565 pp
20187.97%9.414%-1.444 pp
20178.174%9.675%-1.501 pp
20168.286%10.194%-1.908 pp
20158.013%10.025%-2.012 pp
20147.936%9.906%-1.97 pp
20137.871%9.807%-1.936 pp
20128.138%10.018%-1.88 pp
20117.859%9.886%-2.027 pp
20107.749%9.495%-1.746 pp
20097.557%9.281%-1.724 pp
20088.401%10.307%-1.906 pp
20079.146%11.761%-2.615 pp
20069.1%12.495%-3.395 pp
20058.82%11.615%-2.795 pp
20048.676%11.511%-2.835 pp
20039.107%11.425%-2.318 pp
20029.501%11.911%-2.41 pp
20018.243%10.99%-2.747 pp
20008.325%10.848%-2.523 pp
19998.57%11.115%-2.545 pp
19989.274%11.438%-2.164 pp
19979.46%12.2%-2.74 pp
19969.599%11.795%-2.196 pp
19959.702%12.058%-2.356 pp
19949.561%11.885%-2.324 pp
19939.471%11.509%-2.038 pp
199210.004%11.577%-1.573 pp
199110.443%12.358%-1.915 pp
199011.212%12.683%-1.471 pp
198911.734%13.368%-1.634 pp
198812.07%13.959%-1.889 pp
198712.421%14.325%-1.904 pp
198612.529%14.095%-1.566 pp
198512.816%13.81%-0.994 pp
198418.519%14.534%+3.985 pp
198312.665%13.389%-0.724 pp
198211.394%12.464%-1.07 pp
198111.202%12.797%-1.595 pp
198011.488%12.806%-1.318 pp
197912.738%13.97%-1.232 pp
197813.711%15.146%-1.435 pp

Sector structure lab

Map concentration inside Other services (except public administration)

Each bubble is one six-digit industry. Horizontal position is revenue-based HHI, vertical position is CR4, and bubble area follows the selected economic scale.

Detailed industries40Six-digit rows
Median HHI54.330 published
Median CR412.8%39 published
HHI 2,500+0Detailed rows
Published weight77.1%Revenue in chart

Bubble area = revenue

30 rows have both HHI and CR4 / 10 HHI values withheld

Top-five revenue share / 46.8%
NAICS 811111: General automotive repair; HHI 2.6; CR4 2.5%; Revenue $71B; 9.85% of sectorNAICS 813990: Other similar organizations (except business, professional, labor, and political organizations); HHI 69.3; CR4 12.8%; Revenue $34.9B; 4.84% of sectorNAICS 813910: Business associations; HHI 20; CR4 6.5%; Revenue $30.2B; 4.19% of sectorNAICS 813212: Voluntary health organizations; HHI 447.9; CR4 37.2%; Revenue $29.2B; 4.06% of sectorNAICS 812112: Beauty salons; HHI 2.4; CR4 2.6%; Revenue $25.7B; 3.56% of sectorNAICS 813920: Professional organizations; HHI 51.6; CR4 10.6%; Revenue $22.7B; 3.14% of sectorNAICS 813219: Other grantmaking and giving services; HHI 128.7; CR4 17.4%; Revenue $21.8B; 3.03% of sectorNAICS 813410: Civic and social organizations; HHI 7; CR4 3.3%; Revenue $18.5B; 2.57% of sectorNAICS 813312: Environment, conservation and wildlife organizations; HHI 97.4; CR4 13.5%; Revenue $17.4B; 2.42% of sectorNAICS 811210: Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance; HHI 66.2; CR4 12.1%; Revenue $16.7B; 2.31% of sectorNAICS 813319: Other social advocacy organizations; HHI 61.2; CR4 11.2%; Revenue $16.5B; 2.29% of sectorNAICS 811192: Car washes; HHI 57; CR4 11.7%; Revenue $14.8B; 2.05% of sectorNAICS 813311: Human rights organizations; HHI 284; CR4 30.6%; Revenue $14.5B; 2.01% of sectorNAICS 812199: Other personal care services; HHI 13.4; CR4 5.9%; Revenue $13.7B; 1.90% of sectorNAICS 812113: Nail salons; HHI 0.1; CR4 0.4%; Revenue $11.4B; 1.58% of sectorNAICS 812930: Parking lots and garages; HHI 345.2; CR4 32.0%; Revenue $10.7B; 1.49% of sectorNAICS 812910: Pet care (except veterinary) services; HHI 4.2; CR4 3.1%; Revenue $10.1B; 1.40% of sectorNAICS 811191: Automotive oil change and lubrication shops; HHI 212; CR4 24.8%; Revenue $9.6B; 1.34% of sectorNAICS 812320: Drycleaning and laundry services (except coin-operated); HHI 4.4; CR4 2.6%; Revenue $7.1B; 0.99% of sectorNAICS 812331: Linen supply; HHI 351.7; CR4 28.0%; Revenue $6.6B; 0.91% of sectorNAICS 811114: Specialized automotive repair; HHI 15.6; CR4 6.4%; Revenue $5.9B; 0.82% of sectorNAICS 811490: Other personal and household goods repair and maintenance; HHI 12.1; CR4 5.6%; Revenue $5.8B; 0.80% of sectorNAICS 811198: All other automotive repair and maintenance; HHI 86; CR4 15.2%; Revenue $3.2B; 0.45% of sectorNAICS 811412: Appliance repair and maintenance; HHI 18.3; CR4 6.2%; Revenue $2.9B; 0.40% of sectorNAICS 812111: Barber shops; HHI 39.2; CR4 10.2%; Revenue $1.7B; 0.23% of sectorNAICS 811420: Reupholstery and furniture repair; HHI 10.5; CR4 4.2%; Revenue $1.3B; 0.19% of sectorNAICS 811411: Home and garden equipment repair and maintenance; HHI 29.3; CR4 8.7%; Revenue $728.6M; 0.10% of sectorNAICS 811430: Footwear and leather goods repair; HHI 101.7; CR4 14.7%; Revenue $208.7M; 0.03% of sectorNAICS 812922: One-hour photofinishing; HHI 423.1; CR4 32.2%; Revenue $17M; 0.00% of sectorNAICS 813211: Grantmaking foundations; HHI 202; CR4 23.8%; Revenue $130.8B; 18.15% of sector
0-499500-9991,000-1,4991,500-2,4992,500+Withheld

Bubble size describes economic weight inside this NAICS sector. HHI and CR4 remain national statistical screens, not product-market definitions or findings of market power.

Sector intelligence dossier

From industry structure to antitrust evidence

Join the Census screen for Other services (except public administration) to descendant curated markets, public enforcement records, research outputs, and the next evidence queue.

Observatory coverage

Research coverage gap

NAICS 81 / national sector screen

Detailed industries

40

30 HHI published

Curated markets

0

0 exact NAICS crosswalks

Policy actions

0

0 linked reports

Evidence sources

0

0 Census HHI at 2,500+

Explicit research gap

No descendant market dossier is curated yet

The sector remains fully available as a Census structure screen. Product boundaries, geographic scope, and market-specific public sources still need to be assembled before a legal-market bridge can be published.

Market-definition protocol

Descendant NAICS codes provide a research crosswalk only. They do not make a curated product and geographic market equivalent to its Census industry, and market metrics are never aggregated into a sector score.

Review method

Firm concentration ladder

How much revenue the largest firms hold

Each rung widens the group of largest firms included in the Census concentration ratio.

CR4Four largest firms4.6%
CR8Eight largest firms6.9%
CR20Twenty largest firms11%
CR50Fifty largest firms15.6%

Same-level benchmark

Position in the hierarchy

MeasureThis rowMedian
HHI9.823
CR44.6%6.9%
Revenue$720.9B$1.3T
Firms529.7K265.5K

HHI distance from median

-13.2

NAICS hierarchy

Move up or down the classification tree

Level 2 of 6

Federal merger-review composition

Where NAICS 81 appears in HSR review releases

Each release aggregates its own published acquired-entity 3-digit rows. Volume, review stages, labels, denominators, and source custody remain separate from the Census concentration screen.

Open filtered HSR atlas

FY2023 sector aggregate

Other services

3 published 3-digit rows

Exact code / source wording
21adjusted transactionsRank 15 of 19classified HSR sectors
Published share
1.2%
of adjusted release transactions
Agency clearances
0
0.0% of release / rank 18
Second Requests
0
0.0% of release / rank 9
Intra-industry flags
1
1.3% of release / rank 13

FY2024 sector aggregate

Other services

3 published 3-digit rows

Exact code / source wording
18adjusted transactionsRank 16 of 19classified HSR sectors
Published share
0.9%
of adjusted release transactions
Agency clearances
3
1.6% of release / rank 14
Second Requests
1
1.7% of release / rank 13
Intra-industry flags
1
1.3% of release / rank 12

Adjacent-release shift

Stable HSR sector code and label

FY2023 to FY2024

Exact HSR sector code 81 is published in FY2023 and FY2024 with a stable source label. The deltas compare adjacent release aggregates without recoding their 3-digit rows.

Transactions
-3
Published share
-0.3 pp
Clearances
+3
Second Requests
+1
Intra-industry
0
Published rows
0

Interpretation boundary

This bridge joins only the exact broad-sector NAICS code published by both sources. The 2022 Economic Census sector row measures economy-wide employer-firm structure, while each HSR sector aggregate sums the release's published acquired-entity 3-digit rows. The shared code does not define a legal antitrust market, measure a sector merger rate, establish competitive harm, or score agency performance.

Intra-industry field

An intra-industry transaction means the acquiring and acquired persons both reported revenue in the same 3-digit NAICS code. It does not establish a horizontal overlap, relevant antitrust market, or competitive effect.

Nearest structural neighbors

Comparable fingerprints across the economy

Smallest mean national-percentile gaps across HHI, CR4, CR8, revenue, employment, and employer firms, using the same published dimensions as this row.

Evidence access

Reuse this exact row

Source citation

U.S. Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, EC2200SIZECONCEN: Selected Sectors - Concentration of Largest Firms for the United States, released April 2025.

Industry screen, not market conclusion

A NAICS industry is a statistical classification, not a legally defined antitrust market. Use these national revenue concentration measures to screen where deeper product and geographic market analysis may be warranted, not to infer market power or liability.

Market definition method
Other services (except public administration) industry concentration (NAICS 81) | Antitrust Radar