System Atlas

Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in one or more of the following: (1) manufacturing biological and medicinal products; (2) processing (i.e., grading, grinding, and milling) botanical drugs and herbs; (3) isolating active medicinal principals from botanical drugs and herbs; and (4) manufacturing… 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 1 placed here
Primitives
57 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 32541
Establishments
2,905
Employees
321,068
Annual payroll
$36.5B
Payroll per employee
$113.6K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4820
  • 5-9407
  • 10-19364
  • 1000+46
  • 20-49408
  • 50-99318
  • 100-249276
  • 250-499164
  • 500-999102

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.

What the registry holds here

Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing and below · public parts only
With public findings
1
Public parts
2
Distinct sources
2
Last change
Nov 2, 2026

Counts of what public research has found and sourced, each part with its source on the organization’s profile. They say what is known, not how much of the industry exists.

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