333242

Analysis

NAICS 333242 is the 2022 national industry for semiconductor machinery manufacturing, part of 33324 (Industrial Machinery Manufacturing). Census lists 9 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 170 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 28,799 people at an average annual payroll of $150,810 per employee (97th percentile of national industries). 30% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 3rd of the 3 codes at this level within Industrial Machinery Manufacturing, with 6% of them.

Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include etching equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing, micro-lithography equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing, nanoindentation equipment, semiconductor, manufacturing and semiconductor assembly and packaging machinery manufacturing, among 9 in all.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 8% and employment rose 61%. 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 goods appear in 14 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8486 (machines and apparatus of a kind used solely or principally…), 8473 (parts and accessories (other than covers, carrying cases…) and 8543 (electrical machines and apparatus, having individual…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.