Couriers and Express Delivery Services
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing air, surface, or combined mode courier and express delivery services of parcels, but not operating under a universal service obligation. 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 492110- Establishments
- 10,859
- Employees
- 1,036,160
- Annual payroll
- $55.4B
- Payroll per employee
- $53.5K
Establishments by number of employees
- 1-43,775
- 5-9992
- 10-191,227
- 1000+179
- 20-491,446
- 50-991,407
- 100-2491,258
- 250-499380
- 500-999195
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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