29 pages of federal data
What the transformation trades earn, and how many of them there are
Pay by occupation and business counts by industry, taken straight from the two US federal statistical programs that publish them. Every figure is dated, coded and cited, and nothing here is estimated.
- Jobs covered7,364,060across 16 occupations
- Businesses with staff597,566across 13 industries
- Businesses without3,273,282where Census publishes it
- Combined payroll$157.6 billiona year, employer half only
Those four totals are sums of the pages below and nothing more. They are not a measurement of any economy: the occupations overlap in places, several industries share workers, and the nonemployer total is missing every trade where Census does not publish at that level of detail. Every individual page states its own limits plainly.
16 occupations, by median pay
National, cross industry, wage and salary workers only. Self-employed workers, chair renters and owner-operators are outside this survey entirely, which in several of these trades is most of the trade. Each page says so in its own words.
13 industries, by business count
Two counts per industry, kept apart on purpose. County Business Patterns counts businesses with at least one paid employee. Nonemployer Statistics counts businesses with none. In almost every trade here the second number is the larger one, and merging them silently is how this data usually gets misquoted.
What could not be measured, and why
This is the section most statistics pages leave out. Several trades on this site have no occupation code, no industry code, or both, and the honest response is to say so rather than publish the nearest broad bucket under a specific headline.
Window cleaning
No NAICS code and no occupation code. Census puts window cleaning services inside Janitorial Services (561720) and BLS counts window cleaners inside Janitors and Cleaners (37-2011). Neither can be split out, so no window cleaning specific figure is published here.
Professional organizing
No NAICS code and no occupation code exist for professional organizers. The trade is too new and too small to have been given either. Any number you see quoted for it comes from a trade association or a market research firm, not from federal data.
Tattoo artists
No occupation code. BLS does not publish a wage record for tattoo artists, and the industry code they sit in, Other Personal Care Services (812199), also holds tanning salons, day spas and piercing studios. Nothing here can be honestly labelled as tattoo pay.
Lash and brow technicians
No occupation code and no industry code. Skincare Specialists (39-5094) is the nearest wage proxy because many lash technicians hold an esthetics licence, and 812199 is the nearest industry bucket. Both are proxies and are labelled as such on their pages.
Pressure washing
No dedicated code. Power washing sits inside Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings (561790) with gutter, chimney and pool cleaning, and pressure washing operators are counted as Janitors and Cleaners (37-2011) on the occupation side. The industry page publishes the bucket and names what else is in it.
Dental and cosmetic clinical work
Deliberately not covered anywhere on this site. Before and after imagery for clinical or cosmetic procedures carries advertising restrictions and consent obligations this site is not equipped to advise on, so no page here targets it.
How this dataset was built
Fetched once, baked in
Every figure was pulled from the published federal files by hand on 1 August 2026 and stored in this site. The build makes no network call, so a page can never show a number that was not checked. When a new release lands the numbers are refetched and the date moves.
Nothing estimated
No figure here is interpolated, inferred, rounded by hand or adjusted. Percentages and per establishment averages are computed from the stored numbers at build time, so they cannot drift away from the figures they are derived from.
Two universes, never merged
Employer establishments and nonemployer businesses are different surveys measuring different things. Every industry page shows both in the same table with a source row underneath, and never adds them into a single headline.
Public domain, properly cited
Both programs are US government works. Every page carries the exact citation wording, the code, the release period and the accessed date, so a figure can be quoted without crediting this site at all.
Common questions
- Where does this data come from?
- Two US federal statistical programs, both public domain. Wages come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 release. Business counts come from the Census Bureau County Business Patterns and Nonemployer Statistics, both 2023. Every figure was fetched and baked into this site on 1 August 2026.
- Are these numbers live?
- No, deliberately. The figures are stored in this site rather than fetched when a page loads, so the build is offline and every page shows exactly what was checked on the sourced date. That date is printed on every page. When a new release lands the numbers are refetched and the date moves.
- Why is my trade missing?
- Because it has no clean federal code. Window cleaning, professional organizing, tattooing and lash work all sit inside broader buckets that cannot be split out, so publishing a number for them would mean inventing one. The full list of what could not be mapped, and what the nearest honest figure is, is on this page.
- Can I quote these figures?
- Yes, and please cite the agency rather than this site. Every page carries the exact citation wording, the occupation or industry code, the release year and the accessed date. Both sources are US government works in the public domain.
Numbers persuade nobody. The pair does.
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