33461

Analysis

NAICS 33461 is the 2022 NAICS industry for manufacturing and reproducing magnetic and optical media, part of 3346 (Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media).

It has only one more detailed code, 334610, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 30% and employment fell 36%. 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 292 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 4,540 people at an average annual payroll of $70,589 per employee (53rd percentile of national industries). 63% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.

Its goods appear in 23 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 8523 (discs, tapes, solid-state non-volatile storage devices…). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.