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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Receipts
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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54 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | Total | 771,305 | 886,801,038 | 376,090,052 | 7,243,505 | |
Exempt | 5,789 | 20,553,805 | 8,129,955 | 160,973 | |||
Taxable | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | 367,960,097 | 7,082,532 | |||
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541 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | Total | 771,305 | 886,801,038 | 376,090,052 | 7,243,505 |
Exempt | 5,789 | 20,553,805 | 8,129,955 | 160,973 | |||
Taxable | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | 367,960,097 | 7,082,532 |
NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
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Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
54 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | 3,318,396 | 962,642,516 | 2,552,880 | 76.9 | 96,395,283 | 10.0 | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | |
541 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | 3,318,396 | 962,642,516 | 2,552,880 | 76.9 | 96,395,283 | 10.0 | 765,516 | 866,247,233 |
Industries in the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services subsector group establishments engaged in processes where human capital is the major input. These establishments make available the knowledge and skills of their employees, often on an assignment basis, where an individual or team is responsible for the delivery of services to the client. The individual industries of this subsector are defined on the basis of the particular expertise and training of the services provider.
The distinguishing feature of the Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services subsector is the fact that most of the industries grouped in it have production processes that are almost wholly dependent on worker skills. In most of these industries, equipment and materials are not of major importance, unlike health care, for example, where "high tech" machines and materials are important collaborating inputs to labor skills in the production of health care. Thus, the establishments classified in this subsector sell expertise. Much of the expertise requires degrees, though not in every case.
NAICS
54, Professional, scientific, and technical services,
is close, but not quite comparable between 2002 and 1997.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
For comparisons with data before 1997, see the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Receipts ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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54 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | 2002 | 739,592 | 867,813,273 | 369,625,454 | 7,253,312 | ||||||||
1997 | 621,129 | 595,250,649 | 231,398,791 | 5,361,210 | ||||||||||
% change | 19.1 | 45.8 | 59.7 | 30.2 |
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Data for the Professional, scientific, & technical services sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, places, and ZIP Codes.
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Hypertext Tables | Title (with link to data) | Frequency | Contents | Geography |
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Annual Capital Expenditures Survey | Annual | Capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with paid employees | US | |
County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
![]() | Nonemployer Statistics | Annual | Number of establishments and sales of firms with no paid employees | US, states, metro areas, counties |
Quarterly Services Survey: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Quarterly | Estimated revenue for employer firms | US | |
Service Annual Survey: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Annual | Estimated revenue for employer and nonemployer firms | US | |
![]() | Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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