42383

Analysis

NAICS 42383 is the 2022 NAICS industry for industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers, part of 4238 (Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers).

It has only one more detailed code, 423830, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.

County Business Patterns counts 25,949 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 374,989 people at an average annual payroll of $91,835 per employee (79th percentile of national industries). 45% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.

By establishments it ranks 1st of the 6 codes at this level within Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers, with 46.8% of them.

Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 10% and employment rose 1%. 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.