Retail Trade ·NAICS 4441

NAICS 4441 · IRS SOI 2013 (C corp) · Census CBP 2023

Building Material and Supplies Dealers - Industry Benchmarks

2,165 SBA loans on record, $1.7B in volume, for NAICS 4441.

1.8%
Net margin
N/A
Workers employed
N/A
Avg payroll / employee
$1.7B
SBA lending, FY20–26

Data updated August 2026

The verdict · NAICS 4441

Building Material and Supplies Dealers runs a 1.8% pre-tax net margin - significantly below average, typical of high-volume, low-margin sectors - across 56K establishments employing N/A workers.

1.8%
Pre-tax net margin (IRS SOI)
N/A
Workers employed (Census CBP)
N/A
Avg payroll / employee
$1.7B
SBA lending, FY20–26

Use Building Material and Supplies Dealers's NAICS benchmark as a comparison point, not a forecast for one business.

Building Material and Supplies Dealers 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 2013 (C corporation headline) and Census County Business Patterns 2023

Benchmarking Insights for Building Material and Supplies Dealers

Building Material and Supplies Dealers sits inside Retail Trade at a 1.8% net margin (significantly below average, typical of high-volume, low-margin sectors), $60.5B in aggregate receipts across 17,528 returns, averaging $3.4B per establishment.

55,545 establishments employ N/A workers. Illinois leads employment, followed by Michigan and Indiana.

Building Material and Supplies Dealers sits in the 12th percentile for net margin among 4-digit NAICS industries with reported data.

Profit Margin

1.8%

Net income ÷ total receipts (IRS SOI)

Total Receipts

$60.5B

Annual revenue (IRS SOI)

Net Income

$1.1B

Pre-tax net income

Employment

N/A

Total employees (Census CBP)

Avg Payroll / Employee

N/A

Annual compensation

Establishments

55,545

Business locations

Release-over-release change

What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023

establishment count increased by 207. This comparison uses two published national Census County Business Patterns releases; suppressed fields are omitted rather than estimated.

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Where each dollar of Building Material and Supplies Dealers revenue goes

Building Material and Supplies Dealers margin vs national reference points

Building Material and Supplies Dealers net margin 6.0%
Cross-industry median (5%)

p25/median/p75 = 3%/5%/7%

Business Structure Breakdown

Per-entity IRS SOI tables at their own vintages, shares only when every row shares one year (never mix 2013/2017/2022 populations).

C Corporation SOI 2013
17,528 returns 100%

Margin: 1.8% · Receipts: $60.5B

Financial Detail

Total Tax Returns Filed
17,528
Avg Receipts per Business
$3.4B

Sub-Industries

Industry Profit Margin
Hardware Stores

NAICS 44413

 N/A
Home Centers

NAICS 44411

 N/A
Other Building Material Dealers

NAICS 44419

 N/A
Paint and Wallpaper Stores

NAICS 44412

 N/A

Top States by Employment

State Employment
Illinois 44,990
Michigan 40,514
Indiana 28,153
Wisconsin 26,046
Minnesota 23,957
Iowa 12,986
Kansas 11,804
Nebraska 8,874
Idaho 8,295
Montana 6,522

Showing top 10 of 51 states

SBA Lending Activity

SBA FY2020–2026

SBA Loans Approved

2,165

Total Loan Volume

$1.7B

Avg Loan Size

$785K

Jobs Supported

22,548

Program Breakdown

7(a) 1,814 (84%)
504 351 (16%)

Top SBA Lender

Live Oak Banking Company

122 loans in this industry

New Business Share

24.5% of borrowers were new/startup businesses

Annual Lending Trend (7 yrs)

2020
300
2021
471
2022
327
2023
298
2024
328
2025
380
2026
61

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average revenue for Building Material and Supplies Dealers?
$60.5B in total annual receipts across all Building Material and Supplies Dealers businesses. Average per business: $3.4B.
How profitable is Building Material and Supplies Dealers?
1.8% net profit margin, significantly below average, typical of high-volume, low-margin sectors.
How many businesses are in Building Material and Supplies Dealers?
55,545 business establishments.
What is the average payroll per employee in Building Material and Supplies Dealers?
Average payroll data for Building Material and Supplies Dealers is not available in the current Census CBP dataset.
Which states have the most Building Material and Supplies Dealers employment?
Illinois leads with 44,990 workers. Michigan (40,514) and Indiana (28,153) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Building Material and Supplies Dealers receive?
Building Material and Supplies Dealers businesses received 2,165 SBA loans totaling $1.7 billion between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $785K. These loans supported 22,548 jobs at origination. Most lending (84%) came through the SBA 7(a) program.

Nationwide industries with similar benchmark drivers

Two IRS/Census peer sets for Building Material and Supplies Dealers, both at NAICS level 4 and excluding this code so the neighborhoods are not self-links.

According to IRS SOI 2013 IRS Statistics of Income, its reported pre-tax net margin ranks #111 of 126 at that same detail level.

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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 4441 · CBP 2023 · IRS SOI 2013

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

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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