Animal Slaughtering and Processing
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) slaughtering animals; (2) preparing processed meats and meat byproducts; and (3) rendering and/or refining animal fat, bones, and meat scraps. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Manufacturing schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
- Baseline
- Manufacturing v2
- Inherited from
- Manufacturing
- Companies mapped
- 0 of 0
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 31161- Establishments
- 3,716
- Employees
- 556,205
- Annual payroll
- $28.4B
- Payroll per employee
- $51K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-4923
- 5-9657
- 10-19584
- 1000+156
- 20-49492
- 50-99270
- 100-249255
- 250-499178
- 500-999201
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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