311941

Analysis

NAICS 311941 is the 2022 national industry for mayonnaise, dressing, and other prepared sauce manufacturing, part of 31194 (Seasoning and Dressing Manufacturing). Census lists 19 example activities under it in the official index.

By establishments it ranks 2nd of the 2 codes at this level within Seasoning and Dressing Manufacturing, with 44.3% of them.

County Business Patterns counts 376 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 25,059 people at an average annual payroll of $68,262 per employee (50th percentile of national industries). 38% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include cheese based salad dressing manufacturing, cider vinegar manufacturing, cider, nonalcoholic, manufacturing and dips (except cheese and sour cream based) manufacturing, among 19 in all.

Its goods appear in 7 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 2103 (sauces and preparations therefore; mixed condiments and…) and 2209 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.

Census lists 3 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 311421, 311942 and 311422. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.