42344

Analysis

NAICS 42344 is the 2022 NAICS industry for other commercial equipment merchant wholesalers, part of 4234 (Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers).

It has only one more detailed code, 423440, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

County Business Patterns counts 3,637 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 49,828 people at an average annual payroll of $74,823 per employee (62nd percentile of national industries). 49% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 8% and employment fell 4%. 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.

By establishments it ranks 4th of the 7 codes at this level within Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, with 12.2% of them.