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Limousine Service Revenue Benchmark
A limousine service provides chauffeured transportation in luxury sedans, SUVs, stretch limousines and small buses for airport transfers, corporate travel, weddings, proms and nights out, usually booked in advance and priced by the hour or the trip. Vehicles, chauffeurs, insurance and a reputation for reliability are the business.
Average Limousine Service Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census
The 2022 Economic Census counts every limousine and chauffeured car service with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing that total by the number of services gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment shown below.
≈$1,056,000 /year
Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment
4,190
Employer establishments in the United States, 2022
as published $4.4 billion
Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022
How this is calculated: about $4.4 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 4,190 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $1,056,000 per employer establishment.
Scope: Limousine Service, NAICS 485320. The category covers limousine and chauffeured car services with paid employees, including luxury sedans and stretch limousines hired with a driver. Taxi and rideshare services and charter buses are counted in separate categories. Classified separately in group 4853: 485310 Taxi and Ridesharing Services. 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 Endpoint only
Taxi and Limousine Service, NAICS 4853, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.
39.6%the year-five count as a share of the starting count
Across the 2014 to 2018 cohorts, five-year results ranged from 25.7 to 39.6 percent. This benchmark covers Taxi and Limousine Service, NAICS 4853, as a whole, and this category accounts for 4,190 of the 7,413 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 | ≈23% |
Payroll share of receipts, Limousine Service, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
Approximately 23.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, a modest share that reflects a trade where chauffeurs are the main cost but where many are paid as contractors or per trip rather than as salaried staff.
Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes vehicles, fuel, tolls, insurance and affiliate payments to partner operators, which absorb much of what a service bills.
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 | 6.5 |
| Employer establishments per firm | 1.02 |
Scale and ownership, Limousine Service, United States, 2022 Economic Census.
The average establishment employed about 6.5 people, and the industry counted 1.0 employer establishments per firm. A service of that size runs a few vehicles with chauffeurs, a reservation desk and an owner who often drives as well, and the establishments per firm figure shows a trade almost entirely made up of single-location operators.
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
Limousine Service: what a booking-based trade looks like beneath the annual figure.
Before you rely on this benchmark
- Corporate accounts or occasions? Airport and corporate work brings weekday volume at negotiated rates, while weddings, proms and events bring high-value weekend bookings that cluster in a few months. A service built on one segment has a very different year from one built on the other.
- How many hours does each vehicle actually work? A stretch limousine may sit idle most of the week and earn its keep on Saturday nights, while a sedan on airport runs works daily. Vehicle utilization is the core number of the trade, and revenue alone does not reveal it.
- Who carries the insurance? Commercial passenger insurance for luxury vehicles is costly, and rates depend on fleet size, vehicle type, drivers and claims history. It is one of the fixed costs that decides whether a small fleet can operate at all.
- Does the service farm out work? Affiliate networks let operators accept bookings they cannot serve and pass them to partners for a share of the fare. Receipts can include affiliate work in both directions, which blurs what the service's own vehicles earned.
- What do the vehicles cost to keep presentable? Luxury vehicles depreciate quickly, require detailing before every job and are replaced on a schedule that clients notice. That capital cycle is a defining cost that sits entirely outside a revenue total.
- Which permits apply? Chauffeured transport is licensed by cities, airports and states with rules on vehicle age, driver screening and insurance minimums. The permits a service holds set where it can operate and how much it can charge.
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 service with paid staff at a physical base. A chauffeur who owns and drives a single car alone is not counted, and taxi and rideshare services are a separate category.