Home and Garden Equipment Repair Revenue Benchmark

Average Home and Garden Equipment Repair Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every home and garden equipment repair shop with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing that total by the number of shops gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment shown below.

≈$453,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

How this is calculated: about $0.7 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 1,607 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $453,000 per employer establishment.

Scope: Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 811411. The category covers shops that repair and maintain lawn mowers, garden tractors, snow blowers and similar outdoor power equipment. Appliance repair and automotive repair are counted in separate categories. Classified separately in group 8114: 811412 Appliance Repair and Maintenance; 811420 Reupholstery and Furniture Repair; 811430 Footwear and Leather Goods Repair, and 1 further code. Nothing outside that code is counted on this page.

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

Employer Establishments at Year Five Industry group

Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 8114, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.

Across the 2014 to 2018 cohorts, five-year results ranged from 46.7 to 54.2 percent. This benchmark covers Personal and Household Goods Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 8114, as a whole, and this category accounts for 1,607 of the 21,954 employer establishments in it. A count by age is not a survival rate, because the figures compare two headcounts rather than follow one set of businesses.

Payroll as a Share of Revenue Official data

Payroll divided by receipts, both as published for the same year.

Payroll share of receipts, Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 20.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, a modest share that reflects how much of a repair invoice is parts such as blades, belts, carburetors and engines rather than the technician's time.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and in a trade where the owner is often the main technician, that exclusion matters more than in most categories.

Business Scale and Ownership Structure Official data

How large the average establishment is, and whether the population is independent operators or multi-site companies.

Scale and ownership, Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 2.9 people, and the industry counted 1.0 employer establishments per firm. A shop of that size is usually the owner plus one or two technicians, and the establishments per firm figure shows a trade of independent single-location businesses with almost no chains.

These are arithmetic industry averages. They state the size of the average establishment and show that multi-establishment ownership exists. They do not show the distribution of business sizes and they do not measure market concentration.

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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.

Questions Worth Asking BusinessNES analysis

Home and Garden Equipment Repair: reading a small-shop trade whose year arrives in one season.

Before you rely on this benchmark

• When does the work arrive? Mowers come in for service in the first warm weeks of spring and snow blowers before the first storm, so a shop can be overwhelmed for two months and quiet for six. Annual receipts flatten a workload that is anything but flat.
• Is the shop also a dealer? Some repair shops sell new equipment and parts alongside service, which adds receipts at retail margins and brings warranty work from the brands they carry. A service-only shop and a dealer with a service bay share this category but run on different economics.
• Where do the parts come from? Access to manufacturer parts programs, dealer pricing and fast delivery decides whether a repair can be finished the same week or waits on a backorder. That access is often tied to a dealership agreement the average cannot show.
• What does the owner's time count for? In a trade where the owner often turns the wrenches, the payroll figure covers hired staff only. A shop's true labor cost includes hours that the census does not record as wages.
• How is the shop competing with replacement? Cheap equipment from big-box retailers makes some repairs uneconomic compared with buying new, while premium commercial mowers are worth repairing for years. The customer mix between homeowners and landscaping crews shapes the ticket size.
• Does the shop pick up and deliver? Riding mowers and tractors are hard for customers to transport, so pickup and delivery with a trailer is often part of the service and part of the price. The vehicle, fuel and time behind it sit outside a revenue figure.