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, Nec70,541
899900Services, nec18,074
89990000Services, nec18,074
899901Artists and artists' studios16,608
89990100Artists and artists' studios5,885
89990101Artist7,974
89990102Artist's studio1,827
89990103Sculptor's studio675
89990104Calligrapher247
899902Art related services1,486
89990200Art related services797
89990201Art restoration441
89990202Greeting card painting by hand35
89990203Stained glass art213
899903Commercial and literary writings4,394
89990300Commercial and literary writings1,109
89990301Advertising copy writing221
89990302Author1,134
89990303Ghost writing34
89990304Newspaper column writing69
89990305Writing for publication1,134
89990306Technical writing693
899904Song writings982
89990400Song writings148
89990401Music arranging and composing834
899905Weather related services457
89990500Weather related services138
89990501Cloud seeding21
89990502Weather forecasting290
89990503Weather modification8
899906Lecturing services621
89990600Lecturing services592
89990601Christian Science lecturers29
899907Earth science services8,224
89990700Earth science services5,050
89990701Geological consultant802
89990702Geophysical consultant157
89990703Natural resource preservation service2,215
899908Communication services2,544
89990800Communication services2,437
89990801Radio and television announcing76
89990802Radio commentator31
899909Scientific consulting7,522
89990900Scientific consulting6,900
89990901Chemical consultant401
89990902Entomological consultant16
89990903Nuclear consultant84
89990904Physics consultant121
899910Personal services7,218
89991000Personal services5,269
89991001Home planning172
89991002Information bureau1,026
89991003Psychological consultant751
899999Services, nec, nec2,411
89999901Actuarial consultant877
89999902Editorial service683
89999903Inventor271
89999904Search and rescue service435
89999905Technical manual preparation145