Finance and Insurance ·NAICS 5259

NAICS 5259 · IRS SOI 2023 · Census CBP

Other Investment Pools and Funds - Industry Benchmarks

$173,124/yr average annual pay, with 53 SBA loans on record for NAICS 5259.

47.8%
Net margin
10K
Workers employed
$173,124/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$52M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Data updated July 2026

The verdict · NAICS 5259

Other Investment Pools and Funds runs a 47.8% pre-tax net margin - well above the national average - across 2K establishments employing 10K workers.

47.8%
Pre-tax net margin (IRS SOI)
10K
Workers employed (Census CBP)
$173,124/yr
Avg payroll / employee
$52M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Benchmarking Insights for Other Investment Pools and Funds

Other Investment Pools and Funds sits inside Finance and Insurance at a 47.8% net margin (well above the national average), $37.4B in aggregate receipts across 6,763 returns, averaging $5.5B per establishment.

2,006 establishments employ 9,639 workers (4.8/location) at $173,124/yr average annual pay. California leads employment, followed by Texas and Florida.

Profit Margin

47.8%

Net income ÷ total receipts (IRS SOI)

Total Receipts

$37.4B

Annual revenue (IRS SOI)

Net Income

$17.9B

Pre-tax net income

Employment

9,639

Total employees (Census CBP)

Avg Payroll / Employee

$173,124/yr

Annual compensation

Establishments

2,006

Business locations

Release-over-release change

What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023

Employment increased by 652; establishment count increased by 82. This comparison uses two published national Census County Business Patterns releases; suppressed fields are omitted rather than estimated.

Where each dollar of Other Investment Pools and Funds revenue goes

Workforce scale

Other Investment Pools and Funds margin vs national reference points

Other Investment Pools and Funds net margin 100.0%
Cross-industry median (5%)

p25/median/p75 = 3%/5%/8%

Business Structure Breakdown

How businesses in this industry are legally structured (IRS SOI)

C Corporation
6,763 returns 100%

Margin: 47.8% · Receipts: $37.4B

Financial Detail

Total Tax Returns Filed
6,763
Avg Receipts per Business
$5.5B
Annual Payroll (Total)
$1.7B
Avg Employees per Establishment
4.8

Sub-Industries

Industry Profit Margin
Open-End Investment Funds

NAICS 52591

N/A
Other Financial Vehicles

NAICS 52599

N/A

Top States by Employment

State Employment
California 1,583
Texas 895
Florida 624
New Jersey 416
Michigan 331
Washington 148
Arizona 121
Georgia 109
District of Columbia 104
South Carolina 62

Showing top 10 of 49 states

SBA Lending Activity

SBA FY2020–2026

SBA Loans Approved

53

Total Loan Volume

$52M

Avg Loan Size

$987K

Jobs Supported

935

Program Breakdown

7(a) 47 (89%)
504 6 (11%)

Top SBA Lender

Wells Fargo Bank National Association

5 loans in this industry

New Business Share

17.0% of borrowers were new/startup businesses

Annual Lending Trend (7 yrs)

2020
8
2021
12
2022
14
2023
5
2024
7
2025
5
2026
2

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the average revenue for Other Investment Pools and Funds?
$37.4B in total annual receipts across all Other Investment Pools and Funds businesses. Average per business: $5.5B.
How profitable is Other Investment Pools and Funds?
47.8% net profit margin, well above the national average.
How many businesses are in Other Investment Pools and Funds?
2,006 business establishments. Together they employ 9,639 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Other Investment Pools and Funds?
$173,124/yr average annual pay per employee. Businesses average 4.8 employees per establishment.
Which states have the most Other Investment Pools and Funds employment?
California leads with 1,583 workers. Texas (895) and Florida (624) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Other Investment Pools and Funds receive?
Other Investment Pools and Funds businesses received 53 SBA loans totaling $52 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $987K. These loans supported 935 jobs at origination. Most lending (89%) 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: Other Investment Pools and Funds reports a higher net margin than 98% of the 126 IRS-tracked industries at the same NAICS detail level. Its Census employment total exceeds 4% of that same 259-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 reported net margins

Same NAICS detail level, ordered by the smallest difference in reported IRS pre-tax margin.

Closest workforce scale

Same NAICS detail level, ordered by the smallest difference in reported Census employment.

Benchmarking Other Investment Pools and Funds

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 5259 · 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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