State overview · MT · Census CBP 2023
Montana Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 614 industries in Montana. Drill into any industry for a Montana-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 401K
- Workers
- 42K
- Establishments
- 614
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · Montana
Montana employs 401,056 workers across 614 tracked industries, led by General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (23,817 workers) among the 265 detailed industries with published employment.
Health Care and Social Assistance anchors Montana; top-three cumulative share is 49%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
Montana sector employment mix
Share of private-sector employment by NAICS-2 sector (Census CBP 2023). Tile area = workers.
Health Care and Social Assistance is the clear anchor in Montana (19% of 401,056 private-sector workers (about the 12th percentile of states by employment)), but sibling sectors still take meaningful shares. Read the treemap as an anchor-plus-breadth economy rather than a one-sector state.
Not ranked: 2 of 20 sectors have no published employment figure. Census County Business Patterns applies 2% or more noise to those cells, and PlainBizBench publishes only low-noise figures rather than estimating. Total employment, shares and the mix on this page sum only the sectors with a published figure. How we handle withheld data.
#1 · NAICS 62
Health Care and Social Assistance
74,903 · 19%
#2 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
62,888 · 16%
#3 · NAICS 72
Accommodation and Food Services
58,010 · 14%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.106 (open) · top-three 49% of Montana private payroll.
Profit margins are national (IRS SOI); open any industry row below, then the matching national industry page for profitability.
Census CBP firm roll
County Business Patterns MT ANCHORED · CBP
#45/51 · 401,056 workers · 42,043 firms
- EMP 401,056
- EST 42,043
- RANK #45/51
- PCT 12th pct
- LEAD Health Care and Soci…
- SHARE 19% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 9.5 /firm
- BOOK 614 NAICS
- PHOTO Rhode Island
Nearest employment-scale peer: Rhode Island (394,740 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Montana ranks #45 of 51 states and territories by total private-sector employment (level-2 sector totals, the same non-double-counted aggregate shown above). Margins stay on national industry pages (IRS SOI). Read with this state → · Lead 6-digit industry →
MT in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 350 of 615 detailed industries have no published employment figure. Census County Business Patterns applies 2% or more noise to those cells, and PlainBizBench publishes only low-noise figures rather than estimating. Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers (1,100), Commercial Banking (406), Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) (385) and 44 more report more establishments than General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, so General Medical and Surgical Hospitals leads only among the 265 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for Montana's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (401,056 in Montana), excluding MT.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · MT
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