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Commercial and Institutional Building Construction

This industry comprises establishments primarily responsible for the construction (including new work, additions, alterations, maintenance, and repairs) of commercial and institutional buildings and related structures, such as stadiums, grain elevators, and indoor swimming facilities. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Construction schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Construction v2
Inherited from
Construction
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
22 in 5 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 236220
Establishments
39,072
Employees
640,858
Annual payroll
$62.3B
Payroll per employee
$97.3K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-418,803
  • 5-97,163
  • 10-195,902
  • 1000+12
  • 20-494,728
  • 50-991,533
  • 100-249694
  • 250-499170
  • 500-99967

Source: US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (national file), employees as of mid-March 2023, payroll for the year; published 2025-06-26. Coded on NAICS 2017. Withheld cells read as not published.

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