Manufacturing ·NAICS 33429

NAICS 33429 · IRS SOI 2023 · Census CBP

Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing - Industry Benchmarks

$85,457/yr average annual pay, with 24 SBA loans on record for NAICS 33429.

332
Establishments
12K
Workers employed
$85,457/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$34M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Data updated July 2026

The verdict · NAICS 33429

Illinois leads Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing activity nationally, across 332 establishments employing 12K workers. IRS SOI doesn't publish margin data at this NAICS level.

332
Business establishments (Census)
12K
Workers employed (Census CBP)
$85,457/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$34M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Benchmarking Insights for Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing

Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing sits inside Manufacturing.

332 establishments employ 12,455 workers (37.5/location) at $85,457/yr average annual pay. Illinois leads employment, followed by Missouri and Michigan.

Employment

12,455

Total employees (Census CBP)

Avg Payroll / Employee

$85,457/yr

Annual compensation

Establishments

332

Business locations

Release-over-release change

What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023

Employment decreased by 307; establishment count decreased by 2. This comparison uses two published national Census County Business Patterns releases; suppressed fields are omitted rather than estimated.

Workforce scale

Financial Detail

Annual Payroll (Total)
$1.1B
Avg Employees per Establishment
37.5

Sub-Industries

Industry Profit Margin
Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing

NAICS 334290

N/A

Top States by Employment

State Employment
Illinois 1,336
Missouri 851
Michigan 580
Massachusetts 245
Florida 234
North Carolina 205
New Jersey 187
Virginia 56

Showing top 10 of 27 states

SBA Lending Activity

SBA FY2020–2026

SBA Loans Approved

24

Total Loan Volume

$34M

Avg Loan Size

$1435K

Jobs Supported

584

Program Breakdown

7(a) 20 (83%)
504 4 (17%)

Top SBA Lender

Schaumburg Bank & Trust Company, National Association

3 loans in this industry

New Business Share

16.7% of borrowers were new/startup businesses

Annual Lending Trend (7 yrs)

2020
4
2021
7
2022
2
2023
6
2024
3
2025
1
2026
1

Frequently Asked Questions

How many businesses are in Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing?
332 business establishments. Together they employ 12,455 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing?
$85,457/yr average annual pay per employee. Businesses average 37.5 employees per establishment.
Which states have the most Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing employment?
Illinois leads with 1,336 workers. Missouri (851) and Michigan (580) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing receive?
Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing businesses received 24 SBA loans totaling $34 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $1435K. These loans supported 584 jobs at origination. Most lending (83%) came through the SBA 7(a) program.

Comparable industry benchmarks

These links are calculated from the current national dataset. They are comparison paths, not recommendations or evidence that businesses operate alike.

How this ranks: Its Census employment total exceeds 12% of that same 551-industry cohort. Calculated by ranking this industry's reported value against every other industry at the same NAICS digit-level, not the whole dataset: comparing a 6-digit detail industry to a 2-digit sector would mix incompatible scales.

Closest workforce scale

Same NAICS detail level, ordered by the smallest difference in reported Census employment.

Benchmarking Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing

Disclaimer: Public IRS/Census data, not financial or tax advice. See our full disclaimer.

Sources: IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) Business Tax Statistics · Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023

NAICS 33429 · Data year: 2023

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released its 2023 County Business Patterns dataset in June 2025, PlainBizBench benchmarks 2,002 U.S. industries against Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income data. See our methodology for the full compilation process.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns / SUSB Industry employment scale, payroll, and firm-size benchmarks · 2023

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