Industry · NAICS 5613

Employment services

The United States has 56,173 employer establishments in employment services (1.7 per 10,000 residents), employing 7,790,831 people at an average annual pay of $60,555, plus 45,406 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
56,173
45,406 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
1.7
Paid employees
7,790,831
Average annual pay
$60,555

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Employment services by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Merced, CA294,319558,8640.20.10×236$48,8607
2El Centro, CA180,683536,1370.30.17×141$28,73815
3Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ249,100831,1380.30.19×217$30,18919
4Yuma, AZ214,228730,6040.30.20×575$32,05217
5Warner Robins, GA200,730728,6760.30.21×253$26,64817
6Yakima, WA257,314928,5900.30.21×470$35,0495
7Anderson Creek, NC141,772528,3540.40.21×94$37,54314
8Homosassa Springs, FL166,667627,7780.40.22×27$32,07416
9Amherst Town-Northampton, MA165,217627,5360.40.22×62$51,25815
10Utica-Rome, NY287,1061126,1010.40.23×1,143$50,3137
11Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,197625,5330.40.23×265$135,4795
12Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889625,3150.40.24×92$48,0436
13Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA125,184525,0370.40.24×109$36,0923
14Lumberton, NC118,005523,6010.40.25×705$24,00020
15Morgantown, WV141,509623,5850.40.25×328$25,4366
16Kingston, NY182,956822,8700.40.26×199$56,29610
17Eureka-Arcata, CA133,956622,3260.40.27×228$29,5574
18Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT280,7761321,5980.50.28×170$40,86510
19Massena-Ogdensburg, NY106,607521,3210.50.28×143$32,1754
20Ames, IA127,602621,2670.50.28×293$27,03114
21Lawton, OK127,338621,2230.50.28×276$26,27210
22Jacksonville, NC210,9551021,0960.50.28×626$26,07713
23Killeen-Temple, TX502,4972420,9370.50.29×1,126$29,53645
24Mankato, MN104,349520,8700.50.29×145$20,91010
25Las Cruces, NM225,9661120,5420.50.29×502$32,64717

1–25 of 390 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $846.5M on contracts under NAICS 5613 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (4,230 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$113.9M13%
    715 awards
  2. Del Rio, TX$74.6M8.8%
    1 award
  3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA$43M5.1%
    84 awards
  4. Gallup, NM$42.9M5.1%
    285 awards
  5. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$30.1M3.6%
    47 awards
  6. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$21.5M2.5%
    107 awards
  7. Show Low, AZ$19.3M2.3%
    59 awards
  8. Farmington, NM$16.1M1.9%
    125 awards
  9. Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD$15.9M1.9%
    36 awards
  10. Sioux City, IA-NE-SD$15.7M1.9%
    2 awards

Counties

  1. Val Verde County, TX$74.6M8.8%
    1 award
  2. District of Columbia, DC$53.8M6.4%
    322 awards
  3. Los Angeles County, CA$43M5.1%
    84 awards
  4. McKinley County, NM$42.9M5.1%
    285 awards
  5. Montgomery County, MD$27.4M3.2%
    269 awards
  6. Apache County, AZ$25.7M3.0%
    131 awards
  7. Navajo County, AZ$19.3M2.3%
    59 awards
  8. Alexandria city, VA$17.8M2.1%
    17 awards
  9. San Juan County, NM$16.1M1.9%
    125 awards
  10. Union County, SD$15.7M1.9%
    2 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Washington city, DC$53.8M6.4%
    322 awards
  2. Bethesda CDP, MD$21.1M2.5%
    130 awards
  3. Alexandria city, VA$17.8M2.1%
    17 awards
  4. Gallup city, NM$16.2M1.9%
    182 awards
  5. Long Beach city, CA$15.4M1.8%
    33 awards
  6. Houston city, TX$14.7M1.7%
    17 awards
  7. San Diego city, CA$13.7M1.6%
    32 awards
  8. San Antonio city, TX$13.4M1.6%
    29 awards
  9. New York city, NY$13.3M1.6%
    14 awards
  10. Aurora city, CO$12.1M1.4%
    12 awards

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)