Employment
153,041
Total employees (Census CBP)
Retail Trade ·NAICS 44413
NAICS 44413 · IRS SOI (C corp) · Census CBP 2023
Hardware Stores - Industry Benchmarks
$34,174/yr average annual pay, with 440 SBA loans on record for NAICS 44413.
- 16K
- Establishments
- 153K
- Workers employed
- $34,174/yr
- Avg payroll / employee
- $304M
- SBA lending, FY20–26
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · NAICS 44413
Texas leads Hardware Stores activity nationally, across 16K establishments employing 153K workers. IRS SOI doesn't publish margin data at this NAICS level.
- 16K
- Business establishments (Census)
- 153K
- Workers employed (Census CBP)
- $34,174/yr
- Avg payroll / employee
- $304M
- SBA lending, FY20–26
Use Hardware Stores's NAICS benchmark as a comparison point, not a forecast for one business.
Hardware Stores 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 Hardware Stores
Hardware Stores sits inside Retail Trade.
15,694 establishments employ 153,041 workers (9.8/location) at $34,174/yr average annual pay. Texas leads employment, followed by Florida and New York.
Hardware Stores sits in the 72nd percentile for employment among 5-digit NAICS industries with reported data.
Avg Payroll / Employee
$34,174/yr
Annual compensation
Establishments
15,694
Business locations
Release-over-release change
What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023
Employment increased by 5,516; establishment count increased by 675. This comparison uses two published national Census County Business Patterns releases; suppressed fields are omitted rather than estimated.
Subscribe to this industry's release updates (RSS)Workforce scale
Financial Detail
- Annual Payroll (Total)
- $5.2B
- Avg Employees per Establishment
- 9.8
Sub-Industries
| Industry | Profit Margin |
|---|---|
| Hardware Stores NAICS 444130 | N/A |
Top States by Employment
| State | Employment |
|---|---|
| Texas | 9,783 |
| Florida | 9,386 |
| New York | 7,136 |
| Wisconsin | 5,705 |
| Illinois | 5,629 |
| Ohio | 5,536 |
| Washington | 4,467 |
| Georgia | 4,370 |
| North Carolina | 4,366 |
| Arizona | 3,452 |
Showing top 10 of 51 states
SBA Lending Activity
SBA FY2020–2026SBA Loans Approved
440
Total Loan Volume
$304M
Avg Loan Size
$690K
Jobs Supported
5,394
Program Breakdown
7(a) 380 (86%)
504 60 (14%)
Top SBA Lender
Live Oak Banking Company
29 loans in this industry
New Business Share
30.9% of borrowers were new/startup businesses
Annual Lending Trend (6 yrs)
2020 150
2021 217
2022 56
2023 7
2024 9
2025 1
Frequently Asked Questions
How many businesses are in Hardware Stores?
15,694 business establishments. Together they employ 153,041 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Hardware Stores?
$34,174/yr average annual pay per employee. Businesses average 9.8 employees per establishment.
Which states have the most Hardware Stores employment?
Texas leads with 9,783 workers. Florida (9,386) and New York (7,136) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Hardware Stores receive?
Hardware Stores businesses received 440 SBA loans totaling $304 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $690K. These loans supported 5,394 jobs at origination. Most lending (86%) came through the SBA 7(a) program.
Nationwide industries with similar benchmark drivers
Two IRS/Census peer sets for Hardware Stores, both at NAICS level 5 and excluding this code so the neighborhoods are not self-links.
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Hardware Stores ranks #153 of 551 U.S. industries at the 5-digit NAICS level by total employment.
Similar workforce scale
Nearest peer industries by ABS(Census employment) (153,041 here).
Read with this industry: Industry employment trends · Retail Trade · 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 44413 · 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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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.
Disclaimer: Public IRS/Census data, not financial or tax advice. See our full disclaimer.