Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in conducting research and experimental development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences, such as agriculture, electronics, environmental, biology, botany, biotechnology, computers, chemistry, food, fisheries, forests, geology, health, mathematics,… It has no schema of its own: companies here are mapped on the Professional services schema, and what it does not cover is recorded as gaps.
- Baseline
- Professional services v2
- Inherited from
- Professional services
- Mapped on the schema
- 0 of 169 placed here
- Primitives
- 57 in 8 parts
- Last updated
- Nov 2, 2026
The numbers for this industry
United States · 2023 · NAICS 54171- Establishments
- 20,321
- Employees
- 957,341
- Annual payroll
- $149.8B
- Payroll per employee
- $156.5K
- 1-410,213
- 5-92,978
- 10-192,255
- 1000+131
- 20-492,280
- 50-991,070
- 100-249902
- 250-499353
- 500-999139
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
Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences and below · public parts only- With public findings
- 169
- Public parts
- 335
- Distinct sources
- 339
- 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.
Deepen this industry
Focused research on the organizations with the fewest mapped parts in research and development in the physical, engineering, and life sciences; what it finds is public for everyone.
- Sierra Sciences1 part
- UBiome1 part
- Bio-Techne1 part
- funcare of taiwan co.,ltd1 part
- BioViva1 part