State overview · NY · Census CBP 2023
New York Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 1152 industries in New York. Drill into any industry for a New York-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 8.8M
- Workers
- 541K
- Establishments
- 1152
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · New York
New York employs 8,766,053 workers across 1152 tracked industries, led by General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (421,734 workers) among the 526 detailed industries with published employment.
Health Care and Social Assistance anchors New York; top-three cumulative share is 41%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
New York 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 New York (21% of 8,766,053 private-sector workers (about the 92nd 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: 1 of 20 sectors has 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
1,861,291 · 21%
#2 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
862,844 · 10%
#3 · NAICS 56
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services
839,713 · 10%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.096 (open) · top-three 41% of New York 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 NY ANCHORED · CBP
#4/51 · 8,766,053 workers · 540,629 firms
- EMP 8,766,053
- EST 540,629
- RANK #4/51
- PCT 92nd pct
- LEAD Health Care and Soci…
- SHARE 21% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 16.2 /firm
- BOOK 1152 NAICS
- PHOTO Florida
Nearest employment-scale peer: Florida (9,988,508 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, New York ranks #4 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 →
NY in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 373 of 899 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. Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (4,543), Commercial Banking (4,087), Motion Picture and Video Production (2,141) and 55 more report more establishments than General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, so General Medical and Surgical Hospitals leads only among the 526 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for New York's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (8,766,053 in New York), excluding NY.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · NY
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