42381

Analysis

NAICS 42381 is the 2022 NAICS industry for construction and mining (except oil well) machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, part of 4238 (Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers).

It has only one more detailed code, 423810, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

County Business Patterns counts 4,701 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 107,724 people at an average annual payroll of $97,034 per employee (82nd percentile of national industries). 31% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 3% and employment rose 11%. 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 5th of the 6 codes at this level within Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, with 8.5% of them.