Analysis
NAICS 334514 is the 2022 national industry for totalizing fluid meter and counting device manufacturing, part of 33451 (Navigational, Measuring, Electromedical, and Control Instruments Manufacturing). Census lists 41 example activities under it in the official index.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 17% and employment fell 8%. 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.
County Business Patterns counts 156 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 11,939 people at an average annual payroll of $82,145 per employee (71st percentile of national industries). 24% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which points to larger operations.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include consumption meters (e.g., gas, water) manufacturing, controls, revolution and timing instruments, manufacturing, counter type registers manufacturing and counters (e.g., electrical, electronic, mechanical)…, among 41 in all.
Its goods appear in 12 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 9029 (revolution counters, production counters, taximeters…), 9028 (gas, liquid or electricity supply or production meters…) and 9106 (time of day recording apparatus and apparatus for…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
For example, manufacturing integrating meters and counters for measuring the characteristics of electricity and electrical signals are classified in 334515 (Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals) instead.
Official definition
This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing totalizing (i.e., registering) fluid meters and counting devices. Examples of products made by these establishments are gas consumption meters, water consumption meters, parking meters, taxi meters, motor vehicle gauges, and fare collection equipment.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing integrating meters and counters for measuring the characteristics of electricity and electrical signals | 334515 Instrument Manufacturing for Measuring and Testing Electricity and Electrical Signals |
| Manufacturing instruments and devices that measure, display, or control (i.e., monitor or analyze) related industrial process variables | 334513 Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables |
Index entries (41)
- Consumption meters (e.g., gas, water) manufacturing
- Controls, revolution and timing instruments, manufacturing
- Counter type registers manufacturing
- Counters (e.g., electrical, electronic, mechanical), totalizing, manufacturing
- Counters, revolution, manufacturing
- Counting devices manufacturing
- Electromechanical counters manufacturing
- Electronic totalizing counters manufacturing
- Fare collection equipment manufacturing
- Gasmeters, consumption registering, manufacturing
- Gasmeters, large capacity, domestic and industrial, manufacturing
- Gasoline dispensing meters (except pumps) manufacturing
- Gauges (e.g., oil pressure, water temperature, speedometer, tachometer), motor vehicle, manufacturing
- Gauges for computing pressure-temperature corrections manufacturing
- Impeller and counter driven flow meters manufacturing
- Instrument panels, assembling gauges made in the same establishment
- Integrating meters, nonelectric, manufacturing
- Linear counters manufacturing
- Liquid flow meters manufacturing
- Magnetic counters manufacturing
- Measuring wheels manufacturing
- Metering devices (except electrical and industrial process control) manufacturing
- Meters (except electrical and industrial process control) manufacturing
- Meters, parking, manufacturing
- Motor vehicle instruments (e.g., fuel level gauges, oil pressure, speedometers, tachometers, water temperature) manufacturing
- Parking meters manufacturing
- Pedometers manufacturing
- Positive displacement meters manufacturing
- Predetermined counters manufacturing
- Production counters manufacturing
- Propeller type meters with registers manufacturing
- Registers, linear tallying, manufacturing
- Rotary type meters, consumption registering, manufacturing
- Tally counters manufacturing
- Tallying meters (except clocks, electricity meters, watches) manufacturing
- Tank truck meters manufacturing
- Taximeters manufacturing
- Totalizing fluid meters manufacturing
- Totalizing meters (except aircraft), consumption registering, manufacturing
- Turbine meters, consumption registering, manufacturing