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, Nec68,591
899900Services, nec17,291
89990000Services, nec17,291
899901Artists and artists' studios16,364
89990100Artists and artists' studios5,737
89990101Artist7,937
89990102Artist's studio1,786
89990103Sculptor's studio663
89990104Calligrapher241
899902Art related services1,464
89990200Art related services789
89990201Art restoration431
89990202Greeting card painting by hand35
89990203Stained glass art209
899903Commercial and literary writings4,315
89990300Commercial and literary writings1,087
89990301Advertising copy writing217
89990302Author1,124
89990303Ghost writing34
89990304Newspaper column writing69
89990305Writing for publication1,108
89990306Technical writing676
899904Song writings954
89990400Song writings141
89990401Music arranging and composing813
899905Weather related services452
89990500Weather related services135
89990501Cloud seeding19
89990502Weather forecasting290
89990503Weather modification8
899906Lecturing services612
89990600Lecturing services585
89990601Christian Science lecturers27
899907Earth science services8,001
89990700Earth science services4,866
89990701Geological consultant792
89990702Geophysical consultant152
89990703Natural resource preservation service2,191
899908Communication services2,507
89990800Communication services2,400
89990801Radio and television announcing76
89990802Radio commentator31
899909Scientific consulting7,324
89990900Scientific consulting6,722
89990901Chemical consultant387
89990902Entomological consultant15
89990903Nuclear consultant82
89990904Physics consultant118
899910Personal services6,971
89991000Personal services5,081
89991001Home planning169
89991002Information bureau978
89991003Psychological consultant743
899999Services, nec, nec2,336
89999901Actuarial consultant856
89999902Editorial service658
89999903Inventor263
89999904Search and rescue service419
89999905Technical manual preparation140