Podiatry Office Revenue Benchmark

Average Podiatry Office Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every podiatry office with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing that total by the number of offices gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment shown below.

≈$719,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

How this is calculated: about $5.4 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 7,461 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $719,000 per employer establishment.

Scope: Offices of Podiatrists, NAICS 621391. The category covers offices of podiatrists, from solo practices to groups. Physician offices and orthopedic surgery centers are counted in separate categories. Classified separately in group 6213: 621310 Offices of chiropractors; 621320 Offices of Optometrists; 621330 Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians), and 2 further codes. 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

Offices of other health practitioners, NAICS 6213, 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 65.5 to 73.8 percent. This benchmark covers Offices of other health practitioners, NAICS 6213, as a whole, and this category accounts for 7,461 of the 194,668 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, Offices of Podiatrists, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 35.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, a substantial share that covers medical assistants, front desk and billing staff and any employed podiatrists in a practice where clinical time is the product.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, so in a podiatrist-owned practice the doctor's own draw sits outside this share, and it excludes supplies, orthotics and equipment.

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, Offices of Podiatrists, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 5.0 people, and the industry counted 1.1 employer establishments per firm. A podiatry office of that size is usually one or two podiatrists with clinical and front desk support, and the establishments per firm figure shows a trade of single-location practices, with some groups operating several offices.

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

Podiatry Office: what a foot and ankle practice's revenue does and does not include.

Before you rely on this benchmark

• How much of the work is procedures? In-office procedures, wound care, orthotics and surgery reimburse far above routine visits, and the share of procedural work decides revenue per patient. The census counts practices at both ends of that range in one figure.
• Where is surgery performed? Surgical fees for cases performed in a hospital or ambulatory surgery center are billed by the podiatrist but the facility fee goes elsewhere, so a surgical practice's revenue reflects professional fees only. The setting of care shapes what appears here.
• What is the payer mix? Many podiatry patients are older and covered by Medicare, and rules on routine foot care coverage affect what can be billed. Practices with more commercial or self-pay patients report different revenue for the same volume of care.
• Does the practice sell products? Custom orthotics, braces, footwear and over-the-counter products add revenue at retail margins, and some practices run a small dispensary. Product sales change the mix behind a revenue figure that otherwise reflects clinical services.
• Are there hospital or nursing home rounds? Podiatrists often provide care in nursing homes, wound clinics and hospitals under contracts or on rounds, and that revenue may be booked to the office. Off-site work changes the relationship between office size and receipts.
• What does the equipment cost? X-ray, ultrasound, lasers, surgical instruments and sterilization equipment are significant capital costs for a small office, and they must be maintained and replaced. Equipment spending sits outside the benchmark entirely.