Employment
9,961
Total employees (Census CBP)
Manufacturing ·NAICS 33994
NAICS 33994 · IRS SOI 2023 · Census CBP
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing - Industry Benchmarks
$53,427/yr average annual pay, with 9 SBA loans on record for NAICS 33994.
- 368
- Establishments
- 10K
- Workers employed
- $53,427/yr
- Avg payroll / employee
- $9M
- SBA lending, FY20–26
Data updated July 2026
The verdict · NAICS 33994
Kentucky leads Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing activity nationally, across 368 establishments employing 10K workers. IRS SOI doesn't publish margin data at this NAICS level.
- 368
- Business establishments (Census)
- 10K
- Workers employed (Census CBP)
- $53,427/yr
- Avg payroll / employee
- $9M
- SBA lending, FY20–26
Benchmarking Insights for Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing sits inside Manufacturing.
368 establishments employ 9,961 workers (27.1/location) at $53,427/yr average annual pay. Kentucky leads employment, followed by Iowa and Connecticut.
Avg Payroll / Employee
$53,427/yr
Annual compensation
Establishments
368
Business locations
Release-over-release change
What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023
Employment decreased by 220; establishment count decreased by 8. 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)
- $532.2M
- Avg Employees per Establishment
- 27.1
Sub-Industries
| Industry | Profit Margin |
|---|---|
| Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing NAICS 339940 | N/A |
Top States by Employment
Showing top 10 of 36 states
SBA Lending Activity
SBA FY2020–2026SBA Loans Approved
9
Total Loan Volume
$9M
Avg Loan Size
$1056K
Jobs Supported
40
Program Breakdown
7(a) 6 (67%)
504 3 (33%)
Top SBA Lender
Lendistry SBLC, LLC
2 loans in this industry
New Business Share
0.0% of borrowers were new/startup businesses
Annual Lending Trend (5 yrs)
2020 1
2021 1
2023 4
2024 1
2025 2
Frequently Asked Questions
How many businesses are in Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing?
368 business establishments. Together they employ 9,961 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing?
$53,427/yr average annual pay per employee. Businesses average 27.1 employees per establishment.
Which states have the most Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing employment?
Kentucky leads with 218 workers. Iowa (42) and Connecticut (32) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing receive?
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing businesses received 9 SBA loans totaling $9 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $1056K. These loans supported 40 jobs at origination. Most lending (67%) 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 9% 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.
- Satellite Telecommunications 9,919
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- Manufactured (Mobile) Home Dealers 10,216
Benchmarking Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing
- No margin data, check the parent industry. Browse Manufacturing
- 368 establishments, 9,961 workers. Payroll benchmarks
- 9 SBA loans on record. SBA lending rankings
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 33994 · 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.
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns / SUSB Industry employment scale, payroll, and firm-size benchmarks · 2023
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