Analysis
NAICS 339910 is the 2022 national industry for jewelry and silverware manufacturing, part of 33991 (Jewelry and Silverware Manufacturing). Census lists 49 example activities under it in the official index.
County Business Patterns counts 1,844 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 19,188 people at an average annual payroll of $57,440 per employee (28th percentile of national industries). 69% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which marks it as a small-business industry.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 10% and employment fell 17%. 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.
Census lists 6 related activities that belong elsewhere, most often in 332215, 332999, 332812 and 332813. Businesses that do several things are classified by their primary activity, the one that generates the most value, so check those boundaries before settling on this code.
Its index entries, the activities Census uses to assign businesses to this code, include bracelets, precious metal, manufacturing, buttons, precious metal, precious stones, semiprecious…, card cases, precious metal, manufacturing and cases, jewelry, metal, manufacturing, among 49 in all.
Its goods appear in 108 statistical lines of the US tariff schedule, mostly under headings 7113 (articles of jewelry and parts thereof, of precious metal or…), 7117 (imitation jewelry) and 7102 (diamonds, whether or not worked, but not mounted or set). That link is how import data is matched to domestic producers, for example in trade-remedy cases.
Official definition
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching fine and costume jewelry; (2) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching metal personal goods (i.e., small articles carried on or about the person, such as compacts or cigarette cases); (3) manufacturing, engraving, chasing, or etching precious metal solid, precious metal clad, or pewter flatware and other hollowware; (4) stamping coins; (5) manufacturing unassembled jewelry parts and stock shop products, such as sheet, wire, and tubing; (6) cutting, slabbing, tumbling, carving, engraving, polishing, or faceting precious or semiprecious stones and gems; (7) recutting, repolishing, and setting gem stones; and (8) drilling, sawing, and peeling cultured and costume pearls. This industry includes establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing precious solid, precious clad, and precious plated jewelry and personal goods.
Source: US Census Bureau, NAICS 2022 Manual.
Not this code if…
| The business mainly does | Use instead |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing nonprecious and precious plated metal cutlery and flatware | 332215 Metal Kitchen Cookware, Utensil, Cutlery, and Flatware (except Precious) Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing nonprecious metal plated ware (except cutlery and flatware) | 332999 All Other Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing |
| Engraving, chasing, or etching nonprecious and precious plated metal cutlery, flatware, and other plated ware | 332812 Metal Coating, Engraving (except Jewelry and Silverware), and Allied Services to Manufacturers |
| Plating jewelry | 332813 Electroplating, Plating, Polishing, Anodizing, and Coloring |
| Manufacturing synthetic stones | 327999 All Other Miscellaneous Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing |
| Manufacturing personal goods (except metal) carried on or about the person, such as compacts and cigarette cases | 316990 Other Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing |
Index entries (49)
- Bracelets, precious metal, manufacturing
- Buttons, precious metal, precious stones, semiprecious stones, manufacturing
- Card cases, precious metal, manufacturing
- Cases, jewelry, metal, manufacturing
- Chains or necklace, precious metal, manufacturing
- Checkbook covers, precious metal, manufacturing
- Cigar cases, precious metal, manufacturing
- Cigarette cases, precious metal, manufacturing
- Coin purses, precious metal, manufacturing
- Comb cases, precious metal, manufacturing
- Compacts, precious metal, manufacturing
- Cosmetic bags, precious metal, manufacturing
- Costume jewelry manufacturing
- Cuff links, precious metal, manufacturing
- Cutlery, precious metal (except precious plated), manufacturing
- Diamond cutting and polishing
- Drilling pearls
- Engraving and etching precious metal flatware
- Engraving and etching precious metal jewelry
- Engraving and/or etching costume jewelry
- Findings, jeweler's, manufacturing
- Handbags, precious metal, manufacturing
- Hollowware, precious metal, manufacturing
- Jewel settings and mountings, precious metal, manufacturing
- Jeweler's findings and materials manufacturing
- Jewelry, costume, manufacturing
- Jewelry, natural or cultured pearls, manufacturing
- Jewelry, precious metal, manufacturing
- Key cases, precious metal, manufacturing
- Lapidary work manufacturing
- Lighters, cigar and cigarette, clad with precious metal, manufacturing
- Novelties, precious metal (except precious plated), manufacturing
- Pearl drilling, peeling, or sawing
- Pearls, costume, manufacturing
- Personal goods, metal, manufacturing
- Pewter ware manufacturing
- Pins and brooches, precious metal, manufacturing
- Pocketbooks, precious metal, men's or women's, manufacturing
- Purses, precious metal or clad with precious metal, manufacturing
- Rosaries and other small religious articles, precious metal, manufacturing