324191

Analysis

NAICS 324191 is the 2022 national industry for petroleum lubricating oil and grease manufacturing, part of 32419 (Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing). Census lists 13 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 283 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 13,925 people at an average annual payroll of $89,037 per employee (77th percentile of national industries). 19% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 2 codes at this level within Other Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing, with 80.9% of them.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 11% and employment rose 9%. The 2018 count used NAICS 2017, so part of a large move can come from codes being redefined rather than from businesses opening or closing.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include brake fluids, petroleum, made from refined petroleum, cutting oils made from refined petroleum, greases, petroleum lubricating, made from refined petroleum and grinding oils, petroleum, made from refined petroleum, among 13 in all.

Its goods appear in 2 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 3819 (). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.