Employment
9,961
Total employees (Census CBP)
Manufacturing ·NAICS 339940
NAICS 339940 · IRS SOI (C corp) · Census CBP 2023
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing - Industry Benchmarks
$53,427/yr average annual pay, with 9 SBA loans on record for NAICS 339940.
- 368
- Establishments
- 10K
- Workers employed
- $53,427/yr
- Avg payroll / employee
- $9M
- SBA lending, FY20–26
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · NAICS 339940
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
Use Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing's NAICS benchmark as a comparison point, not a forecast for one business.
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing is reported here with financial measures from IRS Statistics of Income and workforce measures from Census County Business Patterns. The page keeps those source systems distinct, shows unavailable fields rather than estimating them, and links the underlying industry context so readers can compare the same NAICS activity before interpreting a margin or payroll figure.
Source: IRS SOI (C corporation headline) and Census County Business Patterns 2023
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.
Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing sits in the 15th percentile for employment among 6-digit NAICS industries with reported data.
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.
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Financial Detail
- Annual Payroll (Total)
- $532.2M
- Avg Employees per Establishment
- 27.1
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.
Nationwide industries with similar benchmark drivers
Two IRS/Census peer sets for Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing, both at NAICS level 6 and excluding this code so the neighborhoods are not self-links.
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Office Supplies (except Paper) Manufacturing ranks #680 of 801 U.S. industries at the 6-digit NAICS level by total employment.
Similar workforce scale
Nearest peer industries by ABS(Census employment) (9,961 here).
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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 339940 · CBP 2023 · IRS SOI
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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