Analysis
NAICS 4855 is the 2022 industry group for charter bus industry, part of 485 (Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation).
It has only one more detailed code, 485510, which covers exactly the same activities; the definition, index entries and statistics are on that page.
County Business Patterns counts 1,165 US establishments in this code in 2023, employing 29,436 people at an average annual payroll of $47,856 per employee (15th percentile of national industries). 37% of the establishments have fewer than five employees, which is close to the national mix.
Between 2018 and 2023 the number of establishments fell 9% and employment fell 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 4th of the 6 codes at this level within Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation, with 5.7% of them.