SIC Industry Description

Industry: 8999—Services, Not Elsewhere Classified
Establishments primarily providing services, not elsewhere classified, such as authors, lecturers, radio commentators, song writers, weather forecasters, writers, and artists working on their own account. Establishments primarily providing commercial art services are classified in Industry 7336.

Actuaries, consultingGhost writing
Advertising copy, writers ofGreeting cards, hand painting of Inventors
Announcers, radio and television serviceLecturers
Art restorationMusic arrangers
Artificial nucleation (cloud seeding)Newspaper columnists
Artists, except commercial and medicalPhysicists, consulting: not connected with business service laboratories
Artists’ studios, except commercial and medicalPsychologists, industrial
AuthorsRadio commentators
Chemists, consulting: not connected with business service laboratoriesSculptors' studios
Christian Science lecturersSong writers
Cloud seedingStained glass artists
Consultants, nuclear: not connected with business service laboratoriesWeather forecasters
Entomologists, consulting: not with business service laboratoriesWeather modification (rain makers)
Geologists, consulting: not connected with business service laboratoriesWriters
Codes TitlesTotal Marketable US Businesses
8999Services, Nec75,993
899900Services, nec21,494
89990000Services, nec21,494
899901Artists and artists' studios16,754
89990100Artists and artists' studios6,219
89990101Artist7,691
89990102Artist's studio1,892
89990103Sculptor's studio700
89990104Calligrapher252
899902Art related services1,547
89990200Art related services842
89990201Art restoration455
89990202Greeting card painting by hand34
89990203Stained glass art216
899903Commercial and literary writings4,588
89990300Commercial and literary writings1,198
89990301Advertising copy writing230
89990302Author1,157
89990303Ghost writing39
89990304Newspaper column writing72
89990305Writing for publication1,163
89990306Technical writing729
899904Song writings1,058
89990400Song writings158
89990401Music arranging and composing900
899905Weather related services466
89990500Weather related services149
89990501Cloud seeding22
89990502Weather forecasting285
89990503Weather modification10
899906Lecturing services654
89990600Lecturing services624
89990601Christian Science lecturers30
899907Earth science services8,655
89990700Earth science services5,423
89990701Geological consultant839
89990702Geophysical consultant163
89990703Natural resource preservation service2,230
899908Communication services2,633
89990800Communication services2,522
89990801Radio and television announcing80
89990802Radio commentator31
899909Scientific consulting7,874
89990900Scientific consulting7,206
89990901Chemical consultant429
89990902Entomological consultant19
89990903Nuclear consultant89
89990904Physics consultant131
899910Personal services7,723
89991000Personal services5,656
89991001Home planning186
89991002Information bureau1,108
89991003Psychological consultant773
899999Services, nec, nec2,547
89999901Actuarial consultant922
89999902Editorial service726
89999903Inventor295
89999904Search and rescue service457
89999905Technical manual preparation147