Basic Chemical Manufacturing
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing chemicals using basic processes, such as thermal cracking and distillation. Chemicals manufactured in this industry group are usually separate chemical elements or separate chemically-defined compounds. 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
- Mapped on the schema
- 0 of 0 placed here
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 3251- Establishments
- 2,621
- Employees
- 168,047
- Annual payroll
- $18.6B
- Payroll per employee
- $110.5K
- 1-4545
- 5-9333
- 10-19368
- 1000+11
- 20-49621
- 50-99378
- 100-249260
- 250-49975
- 500-99930
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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