Remediation Service Revenue Benchmark

Average Remediation Service Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every remediation services business with paid employees, including mold, asbestos, lead and environmental cleanup contractors, and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing that total by the number of businesses gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment shown below.

≈$3,837,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

How this is calculated: about $22.7 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 5,926 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $3,837,000 per employer establishment.

Scope: Remediation Services, NAICS 562910. The category covers remediation services removing or cleaning up mold, asbestos, lead and other environmental contamination. Waste collection, janitorial services and building restoration contractors are counted in separate categories. Classified separately in group 5629: 562920 Materials Recovery Facilities; 562991 Septic Tank and Related Services; 562998 All Other Miscellaneous Waste Management 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 Smaller cohort

Remediation and other waste management services, NAICS 5629, 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 64.9 to 68.5 percent. This benchmark covers Remediation and other waste management services, NAICS 5629, as a whole, and this category accounts for 5,926 of the 12,892 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, Remediation Services, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 27.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll, a modest share for a labor-driven trade because disposal fees, equipment, protective gear and subcontracted testing take a large part of each project alongside the crews.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes disposal, equipment, protective gear, laboratory testing and insurance, which together carry much of what a remediation contractor spends.

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, Remediation Services, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 16.4 people, and the industry averaged 1.2 employer establishments per firm, which confirms that multi-establishment ownership exists in the published population without showing how establishments are distributed across firms. As an illustration, that headcount could be a few crews with supervisors, estimators and an office.

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

Remediation Service: what hazards, disposal and regulation do to a contractor's average.

Before you rely on this benchmark

• Which hazard does the contractor handle? Asbestos, mold, lead and environmental cleanup each require different licensing, equipment and disposal routes, and a contractor specializing in one faces a different market from a generalist. The category counts them together.
• Where does the waste go? Hazardous materials generally have to be transported to and disposed of at licensed facilities that charge by weight or volume, and distance to disposal sets the cost of a job. Disposal is a defining cost that sits outside a revenue figure.
• Which licenses and rules apply? Federal rules govern asbestos and lead work, and states and localities add licensing, notification and training requirements that vary. Compliance is a permanent cost and a barrier that keeps casual entrants out.
• Who are the customers? Homeowners with a mold problem, property managers, demolition contractors and industrial clients with environmental obligations buy remediation on different terms and timelines. The customer mix decides how steady a contractor's work is.
• How does testing fit? Sampling and clearance testing by independent laboratories are often required before and after work, adding cost and time to every project. The relationship between remediation and testing is regulated to avoid conflicts of interest in some jurisdictions.
• Is water damage restoration counted here? Fire and water damage restoration is a related trade often classified elsewhere, so this figure should not be read as a restoration company benchmark. The scope note near the top of the page states what the category includes.