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Shoe and Leather Goods Repair Shop Revenue Benchmark

Repair of footwear and other leather goods, including handbags, luggage and briefcases.

NAICS 811430, 2022 editionUnited States data by defaultSources and dates shown

Average Shoe Repair Shop Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every shoe and leather goods repair shop with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing one by the other gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment below.

≈$292,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

714

Employer establishments in the United States, 2022

as published $0.2 billion

Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022

How this is calculated: about $0.2 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 714 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $292,000 per employer establishment. This is a very small published population, so the average rests on very few businesses and should be read with that in mind.

Scope: Footwear and Leather Goods Repair, NAICS 811430. Classified separately in group 8114: 811411 Home and Garden Equipment Repair and Maintenance; 811412 Appliance Repair and Maintenance; 811420 Reupholstery and Furniture Repair, and 1 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 July 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.

54.2%the year-five count as a share of the starting count

Five-year establishment continuation benchmarkLine chart of industry continuation: 77.9 percent at 1 year, 65.3 percent at 2 years, 58.3 percent at 3 years, 56.7 percent at 4 years, 54.2 percent at 5 years. 1,521 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.100%75%50%25%0%2014-2018 cohort range: 46.7 to 54.2 percentStart: 100 percent, the starting count1 year: 77.9 percent of the starting count2 years: 65.3 percent of the starting count3 years: 58.3 percent of the starting count4 years: 56.7 percent of the starting count5 years: 54.2 percent of the starting count77.965.358.356.754.2Start1 year2 years3 years4 years5 years1,521 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.
Five years on, this industry group counted about 54 establishments aged five for every 100 that first reported paid employment in 2018. Census compares counts by age rather than following the same businesses, so read it as a broad continuation indicator for the industry group, not as a tracked survival rate.

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 714 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.

MeasureValue
Annual payroll share of receipts, United States≈30%

Payroll share of receipts, Footwear and Leather Goods Repair, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 30.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll. Bench time is the product, and the work is difficult to speed up without losing the repair quality customers come for.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes and owner compensation, and it excludes materials, which on a resole are a real share of the ticket.

Business Scale and Ownership Structure Official data

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

MeasureValue
Paid employees per employer establishment2.8
Employer establishments per firm1.03

Scale and ownership, Footwear and Leather Goods Repair, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 2.8 people, and the industry counted 1.0 employer establishments per firm. The average establishment is a two or three person shop, which is what this trade looks like.

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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Figures above are from the 2022 Economic Census reference year, released by the Census Bureau in 2024 and 2025; markets have moved since.

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 a shop with paid staff. A cobbler working alone is not included, and many are.