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Auto Glass Shop Revenue and Continuation Benchmark

Replacing and repairing vehicle glass, most often windshields, at a shop or on a mobile call.

NAICS 811122, 2022 editionUnited States data by defaultSources and dates shown

Average Auto Glass Shop Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every automotive glass replacement shop with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing one by the other gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment below.

≈$1,080,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

6,963

Employer establishments in the United States, 2022

as published $7.5 billion

Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022

How this is calculated: about $7.5 billion in combined annual revenue divided by 6,963 employer establishments works out to $1,080,000. This is an average per establishment, and averages get pulled up by large, busy operations, so a typical business may sit below it.

Scope: Automotive Glass Replacement Shops (NAICS 811122). Automotive glass replacement and repair shops; general body work and mechanical repair are separate categories. Employer establishments only: owner-operated businesses with no paid employees are not in these figures.

Insurance claims drive much of the demand for windshield replacement, while direct-pay work stays meaningful, so the paperwork and the approved rate matter as much as the glass. Mobile units let one technician work a route instead of a bay, so a share of the work is delivered away from any fixed location, which the census figures do not separate. Insurance billing shapes this trade more than consumer pricing does, since a large share of windshield work is settled against a policy with a negotiated rate rather than a posted price. Mobile installation also splits the trade in two: a van that reaches the customer carries almost no premises cost, while a fitting bay does. Census receipts do not separate insurance from retail work, or mobile jobs from shop jobs.

Advanced driver assistance cameras must be recalibrated after many windshield replacements, which lifts the ticket but demands targets, space and training that a small mobile operator may not have. Glass supply for newer models can also delay a job by days.

Source US Census Bureau, 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics (ECNBASIC): ESTAB, RCPTOT and PAYANN by NAICS · Vintage 2022 Economic Census · Calculation BusinessNES · Accessed July 2026

Where these figures come from
Establishment counts and combined receipts are published figures from the official source named in each figure's source line. BusinessNES divides one by the other and rounds to the nearest $10,000; no other adjustment is made. The full chain from published figure to this page is described on the methodology page.

Data Source Notice

This product uses the Census Bureau Data API but is not endorsed or certified by the Census Bureau.

Figures above are from the 2022 Economic Census reference year, released by the Census Bureau in 2024 and 2025; markets have moved since.

Employer Establishments at Year Five Industry group

Automotive repair and maintenance, NAICS 8111, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.

59.2%the year-five count as a share of the starting count

Five-year establishment continuation benchmarkLine chart of industry continuation: 80.0 percent at 1 year, 71.5 percent at 2 years, 66.9 percent at 3 years, 62.9 percent at 4 years, 59.2 percent at 5 years. 9,880 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.100%75%50%25%0%2014-2018 cohort range: 57.3 to 60.2 percentStart: 100 percent, the starting count1 year: 80.0 percent of the starting count2 years: 71.5 percent of the starting count3 years: 66.9 percent of the starting count4 years: 62.9 percent of the starting count5 years: 59.2 percent of the starting count80.071.566.962.959.2Start1 year2 years3 years4 years5 years9,880 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.
Five years on, this industry group counted about 59 establishments aged five for every 100 that first reported paid employment in 2018. Census compares counts by age rather than following the same businesses, so read it as a broad continuation indicator for the industry group, not as a tracked survival rate.

Across the 2014 to 2018 cohorts, five-year results ranged from 57.3 to 60.2 percent. This benchmark covers Automotive repair and maintenance, NAICS 8111, as a whole. It is not a survival rate for automotive glass replacement shops on their own: they are 6,963 of the 167,855 employer establishments in that group, about 4 percent of it. How this is measured

Payroll as a Share of Revenue Official data

Payroll covers installers and schedulers, not the glass, adhesives and calibration equipment each job consumes.

Cost lineShare of receipts
Annual payroll share of receipts, United States≈23%

Payroll share of receipts, Automotive Glass Replacement Shops, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 23.0 percent of every revenue dollar in this category goes to annual payroll. As the census defines it, payroll includes wages, salaries, reported tips, commissions and bonuses; it excludes employer-paid benefits, employer payroll taxes, contractor payments and owner compensation. Treat it as one verified anchor, not a full labor cost breakdown. Installers are the billable unit here, and mobile work adds travel time that is paid but not directly invoiced.

This is not total labor cost or profit margin.

How to read this number
Payroll here is the census annual payroll figure, PAYANN: it includes wages, salaries, reported tips, commissions and bonuses paid to employees, and it excludes employer-paid benefits, employer payroll taxes, contractor payments and proprietor compensation. BusinessNES divides it by the same category total receipts, RCPTOT, and rounds to a whole percent.

Position Within Its Comparison Group Computed from official data

Where this category sits among 7 automotive service categories in the same 2022 Economic Census release. Ranks and the group median are computed on exact values, before the rounding used above.

MeasureThis categoryGroup medianRank
Revenue per employer establishment$1,079,176$844,2252 of 7
Payroll share of receipts22.59%26.82%7 of 7
Employer establishments6,9639,8936 of 7

Position among 7 automotive service categories, 2022 Economic Census, employer establishments only.

This category ranks 2nd of 7 by average annual revenue per employer establishment. It ranks 6th of 7 by employer establishment count and 7th of 7 by payroll share. Payroll equals 22.59 percent of receipts here, 4.23 percentage points below the group median of 26.82 percent. A higher or lower position is not a measure of profit or of business quality: the census reports receipts and payroll only.

Compared With Similar Business Types Computed from official data

The 4 categories closest to this one by average revenue inside the same comparison group.

Census categoryRevenue per establishmentPayroll shareEstablishments
Automotive Glass Replacement Shops (this page)$1,079,17622.59%6,963
Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shops$975,11026.82%9,893
General Automotive Repair$844,22526.41%84,104
Automotive Body, Paint, and Interior Repair and Maintenance$1,325,84628.57%34,618
Car Washes$762,43429.85%19,422

Nearest categories by average revenue, 2022 Economic Census, employer establishments only.

This category reports lower revenue per employer establishment than Automotive Body, Paint, and Interior Repair and Maintenance, and higher revenue than Automotive Oil Change and Lubrication Shops, General Automotive Repair and Car Washes. It contains fewer employer establishments than all four of them. Every figure in this table comes from the same 2022 Economic Census release and the same employer establishment population, so the columns are directly comparable.

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Sources and Methodology

Every figure on this page is bound to a published source, and each figure's own source line names that source precisely: the 2022 Economic Census for counts, receipts and payroll, and the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics for the industry continuation benchmark. Where a page shows a sector survival curve instead, that series comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

BusinessNES performs the arithmetic on those published figures and nothing else. Receipts are divided by establishments, and payroll by receipts. The age-five establishment count is divided by the age-zero establishment count for the same four-digit industry group, then repeated across five age-zero cohorts to give a reference and a range. This category's share of its industry group, along with the ranks, medians and nearest peers in the comparison sections, comes from the same published tables. Every one of them is recomputed from the sealed source files at each release and blocks publication if it does not match. Results are rounded and marked approximate. The reference year is 2022 for revenue and payroll; treat every figure as a baseline, not today's market.

Category scope matters: these figures cover Automotive Glass Replacement Shops (NAICS 811122), employer establishments only. The scope note near the top of the page explains what that includes and excludes for this business type. For auto glass, note that general body work and mechanical repair sit in separate Census categories.

Full method, sources and limits
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