Manufacturing ·NAICS 335921

NAICS 335921 · IRS SOI 2023 · Census CBP

Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing - Industry Benchmarks

$70,911/yr average annual pay, with 17 SBA loans on record for NAICS 335921.

130
Establishments
8K
Workers employed
$70,911/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$7M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Data updated July 2026

The verdict · NAICS 335921

California leads Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing activity nationally, across 130 establishments employing 8K workers. IRS SOI doesn't publish margin data at this NAICS level.

130
Business establishments (Census)
8K
Workers employed (Census CBP)
$70,911/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$7M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Benchmarking Insights for Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing

Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing sits inside Manufacturing.

130 establishments employ 8,325 workers (64.0/location) at $70,911/yr average annual pay. California leads employment.

Employment

8,325

Total employees (Census CBP)

Avg Payroll / Employee

$70,911/yr

Annual compensation

Establishments

130

Business locations

Release-over-release change

What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023

Employment increased by 392; establishment count increased by 14. 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)
$590.3M
Avg Employees per Establishment
64.0

Top States by Employment

State Employment
California 563

Showing top 10 of 14 states

SBA Lending Activity

SBA FY2020–2026

SBA Loans Approved

17

Total Loan Volume

$7M

Avg Loan Size

$406K

Jobs Supported

193

Program Breakdown

7(a) 16 (94%)
504 1 (6%)

Top SBA Lender

Wells Fargo Bank National Association

3 loans in this industry

New Business Share

35.3% of borrowers were new/startup businesses

Annual Lending Trend (5 yrs)

2022
6
2023
2
2024
2
2025
6
2026
1

Frequently Asked Questions

How many businesses are in Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing?
130 business establishments. Together they employ 8,325 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing?
$70,911/yr average annual pay per employee. Businesses average 64.0 employees per establishment.
Which states have the most Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing employment?
California leads with 563 workers.
How much SBA lending does Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing receive?
Fiber Optic Cable Manufacturing businesses received 17 SBA loans totaling $7 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $406K. These loans supported 193 jobs at origination. Most lending (94%) 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 801-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 Fiber Optic Cable 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 335921 · 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

Every figure on PlainBizBench is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page aggregates profit-margin, payroll, entity-type, and SBA-lending benchmarks for this industry, live from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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