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Tile and Terrazzo Contractor Revenue Benchmark

Contractors installing tile, terrazzo, marble and related finishes in buildings.

NAICS 238340, 2022 editionUnited States data by defaultSources and dates shown

Average Tile and Terrazzo Contractor Revenue per Year 2022 Economic Census

The 2022 Economic Census counts every tile and terrazzo contractor with paid employees and publishes their combined annual receipts. Dividing one by the other gives the average annual revenue per employer establishment below.

≈$1,162,000 /year

Average annual gross revenue per employer establishment

10,527

Employer establishments in the United States, 2022

as published $12.2 billion

Combined annual gross revenue of employer establishments, 2022

How this is calculated: about $12.2 billion in combined annual receipts divided by 10,527 employer establishments works out to an average annual revenue of $1,162,000 per employer establishment. Most of this work arrives as a subcontract near the end of a build, so schedule slippage upstream lands here.

Scope: Tile and Terrazzo Contractors, NAICS 238340. Classified separately in group 2383: 238310 Drywall and Insulation Contractors; 238320 Painting and Wall Covering Contractors; 238330 Flooring Contractors, 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 July 2026

Employer Establishments at Year Five Industry group

Building finishing contractors, NAICS 2383, the 2018 starting count compared with the count of five-year-old establishments in 2023.

55.5%the year-five count as a share of the starting count

Five-year establishment continuation benchmarkLine chart of industry continuation: 77.2 percent at 1 year, 67.4 percent at 2 years, 62.5 percent at 3 years, 59.2 percent at 4 years, 55.5 percent at 5 years. 9,718 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.100%75%50%25%0%2014-2018 cohort range: 53.6 to 59.7 percentStart: 100 percent, the starting count1 year: 77.2 percent of the starting count2 years: 67.4 percent of the starting count3 years: 62.5 percent of the starting count4 years: 59.2 percent of the starting count5 years: 55.5 percent of the starting count77.267.462.559.255.5Start1 year2 years3 years4 years5 years9,718 establishments first reported paid employment in 2018; BusinessNES calculation from Census BDS.
Five years on, this industry group counted about 56 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 53.6 to 59.7 percent. This benchmark covers Building finishing contractors, NAICS 2383, as a whole, and this category accounts for 10,527 of the 125,864 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≈27%

Payroll share of receipts, Tile and Terrazzo Contractors, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

Approximately 27.0 percent of every revenue dollar goes to annual payroll. Installation is skilled hand work, and material may be supplied by the contractor, the builder or the customer.

Payroll here excludes benefits, employer taxes, payments to subcontracted crews and owner compensation, and the census ratio does not separate those models.

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 establishment5.6
Employer establishments per firm1.01

Scale and ownership, Tile and Terrazzo Contractors, United States, 2022 Economic Census.

The average establishment employed about 5.6 people, and the industry counted 1.0 employer establishments per firm.

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.

Questions Worth Asking BusinessNES analysis

Tile and Terrazzo Contractors: what the average leaves out.

Before you rely on this benchmark

  • Does the contractor supply the material? Supplying tile puts its value inside revenue; installing customer-supplied material does not, and the two produce very different figures for the same work.
  • Where in the schedule does this trade sit? Finishes arrive late, so delays upstream tend to land here, and crews are idle or doubled up through no fault of their own.
  • How is callback work handled? Cracked grout and lippage bring crews back after payment, and who carries that cost depends on the warranty and the cause.
  • Is the work residential or commercial? A bathroom remodel and a terrazzo floor in a public building demand different crews, different equipment and different insurance.
  • How is substrate condition verified? Failures often begin under the tile rather than in it, and a contractor who accepts a poor substrate may end up carrying the defect.
  • How is material waste estimated? Cuts, breakage and pattern matching consume more material than the floor area suggests, and an optimistic allowance is absorbed by the contractor.

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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.

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 office or yard with paid staff rather than each job.