Establishments primarily engaged in furnishing business services, not elsewhere classified, such as bondspersons, drafting services, lecture bureaus, notaries public, sign painting, speakers' bureaus, water softening services, and auctioneering services, on a commission or fee basis. Auctions of used cars and agricultural commodities, such as livestock and produce, are classified in Wholesale Trade.
Agents and brokers for authors and nonperforming artist | Metal slitting and shearing on a contract or fee basis |
Apparel pressing service for the trade | Meter readers, remote |
Appraisers, except real estate appraisers | Microfilm recording and developing service |
Arbitration and conciliation services | Mounting merchandise on cards on a contract or fee basis |
Artists' agents and brokers, except performing artists | Music distribution systems, except coin-operated |
Auctioneering service on a commission or fee basis | Notaries public |
Authors' agents and brokers | Packaging and labeling service (not packing and crating) |
Automobile recovery service | Paralegal service |
Automobile repossession service | Parcel packing service (packaging) |
Automobile shows, flower shows, and home shows: promoters of | Patent brokers |
Bartering services for businesses | Patrol of electric transmission or gas lines |
Batik work (handprinting on textiles) | Photogrammetric mapping service (not professional engineers) |
Bondspersons | Photographic library service, still |
Bottle exchanges | Photography brokers |
Bronzing baby shoes | Pipeline and power line inspection services |
Business brokers (buying and selling business enterprises) | Playwrights' brokers |
Charge account service (shopping plates) collection by individual | Post office contract stations |
Check validation service | Presorting mail service |
Cloth: cutting to length, bolting, or winding for textile distributors | Press clipping service |
Contractors' disbursement control | Printed circuitry graphic layout |
Convention bureaus | Process serving service |
Convention decorators | Produce weighing service, not connected with transportation |
Copyright protection service | Product sterilization service |
Correct time service | Promoters of home shows and flower shows |
Cosmetic kits, assembling and packaging | Racetrack cleaning, except buildings |
Cotton inspection service, not connected with transportation | Radio broadcasting music checkers |
Cotton sampler service | Radio transcription service |
Coupon redemption service, except trading stamps | Recording studios on a contract or fee basis |
Credit card service (collection by individual firms) | Redemption of trading stamps |
Decoration service for special events | Repossession service |
Demonstration service, separate from sale | Restaurant reservation service |
Directories, telephone: distribution on a contract or fee basis | Rug binding for the trade |
Divers, commercial | Safety inspection service, except automotive |
Drafting service, except temporary help | Salvaging of damaged merchandise, not engaged in sales |
Drawback service, customs | Sampling of commodities, not connected with transportation |
Drive-a-way automobile service | Scrap steel cutting on a contract or fee basis |
Embroidering of advertising on shirts, etc. | Shoe designers |
Engrossing, e.g., diplomas and resolutions | Showcard painting |
Exhibits, building of: by industrial contractors | Shrinking textiles for tailors and dressmakers |
Field warehousing, not public warehousing | Sign painting and lettering shops |
Filling pressure containers (aerosol) with hair spray, insecticides, etc. | Solvents recovery service on a contract or fee basis |
Fire extinguishers, service of | Speakers' bureaus |
Firefighting service, other than forestry or public | Sponging textiles for tailors and dressmakers |
Flagging service (traffic control) | Styling of fashions, apparel, furniture, and textiles |
Floats, decoration of | Styling wigs for the trade |
Florists' telegraph service | Swimming pool cleaning and maintenance |
Folding and refolding service: textile and apparel | Switchboard operation of private branch exchanges |
Fundraising on a contract or fee basis | Tape slitting for the trade (cutting plastics, leather, etc. into widths) |
Gas systems, contract conversion from manufactured to natural gas | Tax collection agencies: collecting for a city, county, or State |
Handtool designers | Tax title dealers: agencies for city, county, or State |
Handwriting analysis | Telemarketing (telephone marketing) service on a contract or fee basis |
Hosiery pairing on a contract or fee basis | Telephone answering, except beeper service |
Hotel reservation service | Telephone solicitation service on a contract or fee basis |
Identification engraving service | Textile designers |
Inspection of commodities, not connected with transportation | Textile folding and packing services |
Interior decorating consulting service, except painters and paper | Time-share condominium exchanges |
Interior designing service, except painters and paper hangers | Tobacco sheeting service on a contract or fee basis |
Inventory computing service | Tourist information bureaus |
Labeling bottles, cans, cartons, etc. for the trade: not printing | Trade show arrangement |
Laminating of photographs (coating photographs with plastics) | Trading stamp promotion and sale to stores |
Lecture bureaus | Trading stamp redemption |
Lettering service | Translation service |
Liquidators of merchandise on a contract or fee basis | Water softener service |
Mannequin decorating service | Weighing foods and other commodities not connected with |
Map drafting service | Welcoming service |
Mapmaking, including aerial | Window trimming service |
Message service, telephone answering except beeper service | Yacht brokers |
Codes |
Titles | Total Marketable US Businesses |
73890000 | Business services, nec | 86,360 |
73890100 | Personal service agents, brokers, and bureaus | 24,598 |
73890101 | Artists' agents and brokers | 703 |
73890102 | Authors' agents and brokers | 146 |
73890103 | Brokers, contract services | 618 |
73890104 | Lecture bureau | 174 |
73890105 | Playwrights' brokers | 15 |
73890106 | Speakers' bureau | 222 |
73890200 | Inspection and testing services | 15,391 |
73890201 | Air pollution measuring service | 232 |
73890202 | Athletic equipment inspection service | 22 |
73890203 | Building inspection service | 13,789 |
73890204 | Commodities sampling | 50 |
73890205 | Commodity inspection | 60 |
73890206 | Cotton sampling and inspection service | 6 |
73890207 | Industrial and commercial equipment inspection service | 278 |
73890208 | Petroleum refinery inspection service | 114 |
73890209 | Pipeline and power line inspection service | 362 |
73890210 | Safety inspection service | 501 |
73890211 | Sewer inspection service | 112 |
73890300 | Advertising, promotional, and trade show services | 2,899 |
73890301 | Convention and show services | 2,700 |
73890302 | Coupon redemption service | 98 |
73890303 | Demonstration service | 78 |
73890304 | Embroidery advertising | 538 |
73890305 | Exhibit construction by industrial contractors | 210 |
73890306 | Field audits, cable television | 60 |
73890307 | Mannequin decorating service | 9 |
73890308 | Promoters of shows and exhibitions | 546 |
73890309 | Trade show arrangement | 709 |
73890310 | Trading stamp promotion and redemption | 28 |
73890311 | Window trimming service | 54 |
73890400 | Textile and apparel services | 1,121 |
73890401 | Apparel designers, commercial | 576 |
73890402 | Apparel pressing service | 25 |
73890403 | Batik work | 4 |
73890404 | Cloth cutting, bolting, or winding | 75 |
73890405 | Corset representatives, fitting only | 13 |
73890406 | Hand painting, textile | 141 |
73890407 | Hosiery pairing | 2 |
73890408 | Rug binding | 12 |
73890409 | Styling of fashions, apparel, furniture, textiles, etc. | 1,320 |
73890410 | Styling, wigs | 302 |
73890411 | Textile designers | 200 |
73890412 | Textile folding and packing services | 21 |
73890413 | Textiles, sponging or shrinking | 10 |
73890500 | Reservation services | 252 |
73890501 | Accomodation locating services | 445 |
73890502 | Hotel and motel reservation service | 253 |
73890503 | Restaurant reservation service | 167 |
73890600 | Interior design services | 14,339 |
73890601 | Decoration service for special events | 3,343 |
73890602 | Interior designer | 14,546 |
73890603 | Interior decorating | 4,778 |
73890700 | Finishing services | 869 |
73890701 | Bathroom fixture reglazing | 42 |
73890702 | Furniture finishing | 97 |
73890703 | Laminating service | 158 |
73890800 | Mapmaking services | 146 |
73890801 | Mapmaking or drafting, including aerial | 171 |
73890802 | Photogrammatic mapping | 204 |
73890900 | Financial services | 24,400 |
73890901 | Charge account service | 74 |
73890902 | Check validation service | 50 |
73890903 | Credit card service | 2,700 |
73891000 | Telephone services | 3,414 |
73891001 | Telephone answering service | 1,763 |
73891002 | Correct time service | 29 |
73891003 | Switchboard operation, private branch exchanges | 11 |
73891004 | Teleconferencing services | 143 |
73891005 | Telemarketing services | 1,281 |
73891006 | Telephone directory distribution, contract or fee basis | 56 |
73891007 | Telephone solicitation service | 24 |
73891008 | Pay telephone network | 96 |
73891100 | Music and broadcasting services | 4,390 |
73891101 | Music copying service | 62 |
73891102 | Music distribution systems | 220 |
73891103 | Radio broadcasting music checkers | 54 |
73891104 | Radio transcription service | 160 |
73891105 | Recording studio, noncommercial records | 5,923 |
73891106 | Music recording producer | 1,721 |
73891107 | Audio cassette duplication services | 54 |
73891200 | Packaging and labeling services | 2,974 |
73891201 | Labeling bottles, cans, cartons, etc. | 47 |
73891202 | Mounting merchandise on cards | 8 |
73891300 | Legal and tax services | 2,873 |
73891301 | Arbitration and conciliation service | 1,672 |
73891302 | Bail bonding | 6,647 |
73891303 | Bondsperson | 316 |
73891304 | Copyright protection service | 53 |
73891305 | Drawback service, customs | 17 |
73891306 | Notary publics | 11,955 |
73891307 | Paralegal service | 1,441 |
73891308 | Patent brokers | 111 |
73891309 | Process serving service | 740 |
73891310 | Repossession service | 600 |
73891311 | Tax collection agency | 257 |
73891312 | Tax title dealers | 31 |
73891400 | Auction, appraisal, and exchange services | 3,672 |
73891401 | Appraisers, except real estate | 2,229 |
73891402 | Auctioneers, fee basis | 6,276 |
73891403 | Barter exchange | 121 |
73891404 | Bottle exchange | 15 |
73891405 | Bottle sorting | 27 |
73891406 | Flea market | 878 |
73891407 | Merchandise liquidators | 1,216 |
73891408 | Time-share condominium exchange | 168 |
73891500 | Lettering and sign painting services | 257 |
73891501 | Lettering service | 120 |
73891502 | Show card and poster painting | 11 |
73891503 | Sign painting and lettering shop | 686 |
73891600 | Mailing and messenger services | 599 |
73891601 | Courier or messenger service | 2,744 |
73891602 | Florist telegraph service | 16 |
73891603 | Mailbox rental and related service | 8,221 |
73891604 | Post office contract stations | 128 |
73891605 | Presorted mail service | 87 |
73891700 | Brokers' services | 2,829 |
73891701 | Brokers, business: buying and selling business enterprises | 1,855 |
73891702 | Fish broker | 85 |
73891703 | Log and lumber broker | 154 |
73891704 | Photography brokers | 259 |
73891705 | Yacht brokers | 963 |
73891706 | Printing broker | 866 |
73891800 | Design services | 255,385 |
73891801 | Design, commercial and industrial | 1,538 |
73891802 | Hand tool designers | 30 |
73891803 | Shoe designers | 32 |
73891900 | Metal cutting services | 257 |
73891901 | Metal slitting and shearing | 55 |
73891902 | Scrap steel cutting | 71 |
73899901 | Automobile recovery service | 1,275 |
73899902 | Balloons, novelty and toy | 123 |
73899903 | Bronzing, baby shoes | 13 |
73899904 | Building scale models | 65 |
73899905 | Child restraint seat, automotive: rental | 15 |
73899906 | Coffee service | 727 |
73899907 | Contractors' disbursement control | 109 |
73899908 | Cosmetic kits, assembling and packaging | 93 |
73899909 | Crane and aerial lift service | 751 |
73899910 | Divers, commercial | 339 |
73899911 | Document and office record destruction | 1,084 |
73899912 | Document embossing | 31 |
73899913 | Drafting service, except temporary help | 1,497 |
73899914 | Drive-a-way automobile service | 102 |
73899915 | Engraving service | 1,518 |
73899916 | Engrossing: diplomas, resolutions, etc. | 11 |
73899917 | Field warehousing | 122 |
73899918 | Filling pressure containers | 24 |
73899919 | Fire extinguisher servicing | 1,134 |
73899920 | Fire protection service other than forestry or public | 2,228 |
73899921 | Flagging service (traffic control) | 336 |
73899922 | Float decoration | 27 |
73899923 | Fund raising organizations | 5,651 |
73899924 | Gas system conversion | 36 |
73899925 | Grinding, precision: commercial or industrial | 272 |
73899926 | Handwriting analysis | 81 |
73899927 | Human skeleton preparation | 4 |
73899928 | Ice surface maintenance: hockey, curling, etc. | 10 |
73899929 | Inventory computing service | 618 |
73899930 | Marine reporting | 66 |
73899931 | Meter readers, remote | 48 |
73899932 | Microfilm recording and developing service | 174 |
73899933 | Office facilities and secretarial service rental | 3,171 |
73899934 | Patrol of electric transmission or gas lines | 23 |
73899935 | Personal investigation service | 1,228 |
73899936 | Photographic library service | 42 |
73899937 | Pilot car escort service | 149 |
73899938 | Plant care service | 334 |
73899939 | Press clipping service | 28 |
73899940 | Printed circuitry graphic layout | 93 |
73899941 | Product sterilization service | 44 |
73899942 | Purchasing service | 587 |
73899943 | Racetrack cleaning, except buildings | 7 |
73899944 | Relocation service | 718 |
73899945 | Salvaging of damaged merchandise, service only | 118 |
73899946 | Sewing contractor | 726 |
73899947 | Solvents recovery service | 23 |
73899948 | Swimming pool and hot tub service and maintenance | 11,782 |
73899949 | Tape slitting | 6 |
73899950 | Tobacco sheeting service | 1 |
73899951 | Tombstone engraving | 29 |
73899952 | Tourist information bureau | 1,236 |
73899953 | Translation services | 6,953 |
73899954 | Water softener service | 2,079 |
73899955 | Weighing, food and commodity | 49 |
73899956 | Welcoming services | 82 |
73899957 | Aquarium design and maintenance | 215 |
73899958 | Subscription fulfillment services: magazine, newspaper, etc. | 222 |
73899959 | Explosives recovery or extraction services | 23 |
73899960 | Estimating service, construction | 423 |
73899961 | Aquatic weed maintenance | 68 |
73899962 | Printers' services: folding, collating, etc. | 367 |
73899963 | Bicycle assembly service | 40 |
73899964 | Product endorsement service | 57 |
73899965 | Inventory stocking service | 103 |
73899966 | Document storage service | 284 |
73899967 | Tenant screening service | 59 |
73899999 | Business services at non-commercial site | 557,572 |