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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Receipts
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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54 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | Total | 771,305 | 886,801,038 | 376,090,052 | 7,243,505 |
| Exempt | 5,789 | 20,553,805 | 8,129,955 | 160,973 | |||
| Taxable | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | 367,960,097 | 7,082,532 | |||
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541 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | Total | 771,305 | 886,801,038 | 376,090,052 | 7,243,505 |
| Exempt | 5,789 | 20,553,805 | 8,129,955 | 160,973 | |||
| Taxable | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | 367,960,097 | 7,082,532 | |||
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5416 | Management, scientific, & technical consulting services | Taxable | 116,159 | 105,451,814 | 42,824,709 | 738,675 |
| 54161 | Management consulting services | Taxable | 93,549 | 90,914,599 | 37,229,149 | 626,646 | |
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541611 | Admin management & general management consulting services | Taxable | 48,377 | 53,708,440 | 22,879,138 | 352,805 |
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541612 | Human resources & executive search consulting services | Taxable | 16,247 | 14,320,616 | 6,959,823 | 121,685 |
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541613 | Marketing consulting services | Taxable | 18,887 | 14,329,430 | 4,604,510 | 94,635 |
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541614 | Process, physical distribution, & logistics consulting services | Taxable | 5,305 | 6,905,966 | 2,192,983 | 43,927 |
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541618 | Other management consulting services | Taxable | 4,733 | 1,650,147 | 592,695 | 13,594 |
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 54 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | 3,318,396 | 962,642,516 | 2,552,880 | 76.9 | 96,395,283 | 10.0 | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | |
| 541 | Professional, scientific, & technical services | 3,318,396 | 962,642,516 | 2,552,880 | 76.9 | 96,395,283 | 10.0 | 765,516 | 866,247,233 | |
| 5416 | Management, scientific, & technical consulting services | 580,764 | 124,088,929 | 464,605 | 80.0 | 18,637,115 | 15.0 | 116,159 | 105,451,814 | |
| 54161 | Management consulting services | N | N | N | N | N | N | 93,549 | 90,914,599 | |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations on management issues, such as strategic and organizational planning; financial planning and budgeting; marketing objectives and policies; human resource policies, practices, and planning; production scheduling; and control planning.
Cross-References.
NAICS
54161, Management consulting services,
is comparable between 2002 and 1997.
See the Bridge Between 2002 NAICS and 1997 NAICS for changes to constituent industries.
In comparisons with data before 1997, 1997 NAICS 54161 corresponds to the sum of multiple SIC codes. See the Bridge Between 1997 NAICS and 1987 SIC.
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Receipts ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 54161 | Management consulting services | 2002 | 93,602 | 91,464,208 | 37,357,344 | 629,772 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 60,794 | 52,224,697 | 22,296,821 | 411,044 | ||||||||||
| % change | 54.0 | 75.1 | 67.5 | 53.2 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Professional, scientific, & technical services sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, places, and ZIP Codes.




















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 30000 | Industry total | 90,914,599 | 100.00 | |
| 36031 | Administrative & general management consulting services | 48,471,611 | 53.32 | |
| 36033 | Marketing consulting services | 13,611,517 | 14.97 | |
| 36032 | Human resources consulting services | 7,774,645 | 8.55 | |
| 36034 | Process, physical distribution, & logistics consulting services | 6,580,996 | 7.24 | |
| -Other | 14,475,830 | 15.92 |
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| County Business Patterns | Annual | Employees; payroll; number of establishments by employment size of establishment | US, states, metro areas, counties | |
| Service Annual Survey: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | Annual | Estimated revenue for employer and nonemployer firms | US | |
| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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