333921

Analysis

NAICS 333921 is the 2022 national industry for elevator and moving stairway manufacturing, part of 33392 (Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing). Census lists 6 example activities under it in the official index.

County Business Patterns counts 191 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 8,360 people at an average annual payroll of $83,616 per employee (72nd percentile of national industries). 28% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 4 codes at this level within Material Handling Equipment Manufacturing, with 11.6% of them.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments grew 9% and employment fell 7%. 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 automobile lifts (i.e., garage-type, service station)…, dumbwaiters manufacturing, elevators, passenger and freight, manufacturing and escalators manufacturing, among 6 in all.

Its goods appear in 6 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8428 (other lifting, handling, loading or unloading machinery…) and 8431 (parts suitable for use solely or principally with the…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.