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Scheduled Air Transportation

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing air transportation of passengers and/or cargo over regular routes and on regular schedules. Establishments in this industry operate flights even if partially loaded. It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Transportation & logistics schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.

Baseline
Transportation & logistics v2
Inherited from
Transportation & logistics
Companies mapped
0 of 0
Primitives
56 in 8 parts
Last updated
Nov 2, 2026

The numbers for this industry

United States · 2023 · NAICS 4811
Establishments
2,233
Employees
501,126
Annual payroll
$51.1B
Payroll per employee
$101.9K
Establishments by number of employees
  • 1-4729
  • 5-9235
  • 10-19287
  • 1000+91
  • 20-49347
  • 50-99216
  • 100-249203
  • 250-49980
  • 500-99945

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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