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Industrial Machinery Repair Service Revenue Benchmark
An industrial machinery repair service maintains, repairs and rebuilds the equipment that factories, farms, warehouses and commercial buildings depend on, from production lines and compressors to forklifts, agricultural machinery and welded structures. Work happens in the customer's plant or in the shop, and skilled millwrights, mechanics and welders are the product.
Average Industrial Machinery Repair Service Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census
The 2022 Economic Census counts every commercial and industrial machinery repair business with paid employees, excluding automotive and electronics repair, and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing that total by the number of businesses gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment shown below.
≈$2,284,000 /year
Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment
23,925
Employer establishments in the United States, 2022
as published $54.6 billion
Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022
How this is calculated: about $54.6 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 23,925 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $2,284,000 per employer establishment.
Scope: Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 811310. The Census category is Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance. It counts field and shop repair of commercial and industrial machinery, agricultural equipment and welding repair work, and it excludes automotive, electronics and heating and cooling repair, which are counted elsewhere. 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
Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 8113, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.
60.4%the year-five count as a share of the starting count
Across the 2014 to 2018 cohorts, five-year results ranged from 56.6 to 61.3 percent. This benchmark covers Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance, NAICS 8113, as a whole, and this category accounts for 23,925 of the 23,925 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.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Annual payroll share of receipts, United States | ≈27% |
Payroll share of receipts, Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
Approximately 27.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, a modest share for a skilled trade because replacement parts, bearings, motors and fabricated components carry a large part of the invoice alongside labor.
Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes parts, service vehicles and the specialized tools a field crew carries, so the cost of delivering a repair sits above this share.
Business Scale and Ownership Structure Official data
How large the average establishment is, and whether the population is independent operators or multi-site companies.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Paid employees per employer establishment | 9.6 |
| Employer establishments per firm | 1.09 |
Scale and ownership, Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment (except Automotive and Electronic) Repair and Maintenance, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
The average establishment employed about 9.6 people, and the industry counted 1.1 employer establishments per firm. A repair business of that size fields several technicians with a service coordinator behind them, and the establishments per firm figure shows a trade of independent single-location firms, with some regional companies running more than one branch.
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
Industrial Machinery Repair Service: the questions a plant manager and a shop owner would both ask.
Before you rely on this benchmark
- Field work or shop work? Repairs done at the customer's plant carry travel time, on-site constraints and emergency call-out rates, while shop rebuilds allow scheduling and better tooling. The balance between the two changes labor productivity and pricing, and the census does not separate them.
- Which industries does the shop serve? Food plants, sawmills, foundries, farms and warehouses each bring their own equipment, downtime pressure and safety rules. A shop tied to one local industry rises and falls with it, which a national average cannot reveal.
- How much revenue is emergency work? Breakdown calls pay premium rates but arrive unpredictably and strain scheduling, while maintenance contracts pay less per hour and fill the calendar. The mix between the two decides how a shop staffs and how stable its revenue is.
- Who supplies the skilled labor? Millwrights, industrial mechanics and certified welders are scarce in many regions, and losing one can idle a crew. Recruitment and training costs shape the trade more than most cost lines the census does record.
- What does the equipment cost to carry? Cranes, service trucks, machine tools and welding rigs represent capital that must be paid for between jobs, and a shop with a large fleet has a fixed cost base that a lean field operation does not. Revenue alone cannot show that difference.
- How is liability handled? A failed repair on production equipment can cause downtime or injury, so insurance, certifications and documentation are serious costs. They rise with the risk of the work and appear nowhere in a receipts total.
Sources and Methodology
Revenue, establishment counts, payroll, employment and firm counts on this page come from the 2022 Economic Census, Summary Statistics, published by the US Census Bureau. Averages and shares are BusinessNES calculations from those published totals, and each one names the two figures it divides.
The Census counts employer establishments, meaning each shop or service base with paid staff. This category excludes automotive, electronics and heating and cooling repair, which are counted elsewhere, and a mechanic working alone is not counted.