State overview · VT · Census CBP 2023
Vermont Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 513 industries in Vermont. Drill into any industry for a Vermont-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 248K
- Workers
- 20K
- Establishments
- 513
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · Vermont
Vermont employs 248,351 workers across 513 tracked industries, led by General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (13,856 workers) among the 208 detailed industries with published employment.
Health Care and Social Assistance anchors Vermont; top-three cumulative share is 48%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
Vermont 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 Vermont (19% of 248,351 private-sector workers (about the 2nd 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: 3 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
48,409 · 19%
#2 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
37,491 · 15%
#3 · NAICS 72
Accommodation and Food Services
32,546 · 13%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.110 (open) · top-three 48% of Vermont 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 VT ANCHORED · CBP
#50/51 · 248,351 workers · 20,235 firms
- EMP 248,351
- EST 20,235
- RANK #50/51
- PCT 2nd pct
- LEAD Health Care and Soci…
- SHARE 19% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 12.3 /firm
- BOOK 513 NAICS
- PHOTO Alaska
Nearest employment-scale peer: Alaska (263,002 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Vermont ranks #50 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 →
VT in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 325 of 533 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. Landscaping Services (521), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (230), Janitorial Services (214) and 105 more report more establishments than General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, so General Medical and Surgical Hospitals leads only among the 208 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for Vermont's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (248,351 in Vermont), excluding VT.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · VT
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