NAICS 3342 manufacturing statistics

NAICS 3342 is the three-digit Communications Equipment Manufacturing classification inside US manufacturing (31-33). It resolves into exactly three six-digit industries: 334210 Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing, 334220 Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing and 334290 Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing.

The split matters because each code carries its own establishments, firms, payrolls and receipts at every geography level. A handset assembler, a broadcast-transmitter maker and an RF component shop share a three-digit prefix and little else, so any "NAICS 3342 total" should state whether it sums the trio or quotes one line. The NAICS 334 glossary entry places the group inside the wider computer-and-electronics tree.

The statistic set is wider than a headcount. The benchmark carries seven measures - establishments, firms, employees, annual payroll, first-quarter payroll, receipts and value added - and the surrounding products extend it backward one year at a time and forward in price space. Each named product below gets its own numbers.

US Economic Census 2022 - NAICS 3342 Communications Equipment Manufacturing is the anchor, and it is not a close call. It scores 10 out of 10 on Datadory's rubric - the only perfect record among the industry's eight primary datasets, and one of just 145 perfect scores across a 1,744-record catalog averaging 7.81. One vintage carries 130 variables across 20 sector summary groups, with the economics riding thirteen core columns on every industry-by-geography cell. Geography runs from the national total through regions, states, counties, consolidated cities and metropolitan/micropolitan areas, with offshore areas documented and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Marianas, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands) riding companion editions.

U.S. Census Bureau Data API - CBP / Economic Census / Wholesale Trade (related record, scored 9) supplies the annual layer: County Business Patterns vintages 1986-2023 filterable by six-digit NAICS down to ZIP codes, carrying establishments, mid-March employment, payroll and nine employee-size classes with noise flags inline. It drops receipts and value added - trend lines yes, dollar sizing no.

BLS Producer Price Index - Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing (PCU334210334210) (scored 9) adds the deflator: monthly factory-gate prices for 334210 alone, indexed to December 1985 = 100 - the constant-dollar conversion any decade-spanning revenue comparison needs. The table below maps every product to the statistic it owns, so the right denominator gets cited before the number does.

The 2022 benchmark publishes one row per NAICS-industry-by-geography cell. The three communications equipment industries sit one filter apart, so a nation-level read looks like this - codes, labels and column order exactly as documented:

``` NAICS2022 NAICS2022_LABEL GEO_ID NAME 334210 Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing 0100000US United States 334220 Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing 0100000US United States 334290 Other Communications Equipment Manufacturing 0100000US United States

Five distinctions do most of the work, definitions verified during the August 2026 cataloging pass:

• ESTAB versus FIRM - an establishment is a physical plant; a firm is the company behind it. A maker with three factories registers three establishments and one firm, so capacity questions want ESTAB and company-count questions want FIRM.
• RCPTOT - sales, value of shipments, or revenue in thousands of dollars; the load-bearing column every market-sizing model cash-flows through.
• PAYANN beside PAYQTR1 - annual payroll sets the wage base; first-quarter payroll probes hiring seasonality inside the same cell.
• VALADD - value added in thousands of dollars: output minus intermediate inputs, the measure macro frameworks reconcile against GDP.
• EMP_IMP and RCPTOT_IMP - range flags reporting how much of each cell's employment and revenue was imputed. They matter most in thinly populated county-by-industry cells; weight a cell's precision by its flag before building per-plant arithmetic on it.

The price record keeps its own honesty flag: a P footnote marks preliminary index values that stay open to revision while their window runs, which is exactly the distinction a downstream deflator wants preserved instead of flattened.

Three clocks cover the industry, and each answers a question the others cannot:

1. Five-yearly benchmark. Reference year 2022, with prior editions for 2002, 2007, 2012 and 2017 and the next full re-measure arriving on the 2027 cycle. This is the authoritative measurement of establishments, firms, payroll, receipts and value added - one deep snapshot rather than a stream.
2. Annual structure. County Business Patterns fills every year between benchmarks across vintages 1986-2023, with clean six-digit filtering from 1998 onward - earlier vintages sit on the older SIC coding, so a long-run splice crosses a definitional break whether you like it or not.
3. Monthly prices. The telephone-apparatus index runs from January 1998 through July 2026, roughly 2,200 observations: 87.8 in January 2016, 95.490 in January 2025, 80.251 in June 2025 and 90.199 in July 2026. The mid-2025 step is a reweighting discontinuity, so long-run splices should read the surrounding revision notes rather than join blindly.

The practical rule falls straight out of the clocks: quote the benchmark year for levels, the annual series for direction, and deflate through the price index before comparing any two dollars that lived in different years.

Domestic supply-side counts get their meaning from the installed base they serve, and two delivered panels cover the demand side without an assembly project.

World Bank API - ICT Indicators JSON Service is the automation-grade record: flat fifteen-field country-year rows keyed on ISO3 code, so they bolt onto any country master with one join. The mobile series alone accounts for 17,490 records across every economy and aggregate the Bank tracks, observed from 1976 onward; Africa Eastern and Southern added roughly 62 million subscriptions between 2024 (672,000,000) and 2025 (734,000,000) - about 9.2% in one year, the kind of replacement-demand signal a US plant grid gets measured against. Saturation reads the same way: the internet-use indicator puts the United States at 94.69% in 2024, while fixed telephone subscriptions per 100 people run 23.61 there in 2024 across a history reaching back to 1960.

The ITU aggregates panel removes the summing step: roughly 15 indicator families over 2005-2025 pre-cut across the world total, six ITU regions, World Bank income groups and the LDC, LLDC and SIDS compositions, with urban/rural splits beneath - about 110 KB of strategy-deck-ready context. Watch the unit column: world mobile-cellular penetration above 100 per 100 inhabitants (111.5) is dual-SIM intensity, not a data error.

Join either panel to county payroll and the story writes itself: a workforce serving a saturating market reads very differently from one serving 9%-a-year subscription growth, and the same county grid supports both readings.

No - and that is the point of the counting question. Every cell aggregates establishments and firms by industry and geography, so no business names appear anywhere in the tables; confidentiality rules govern the underlying responses. When firm-level identity is the job, a different kind of record takes over.

The FCC ID Equipment Authorization Database (FCCID.io mirror) indexes every RF device authorized for the US market across 76,774 active grantee registrations accumulated since April 1998 and current into August 2026, with grantees headquartered in the US, China, Italy, Latvia, the UK and elsewhere. Each filing carries applicant, grantee code, equipment class, declared frequency range, rated output power, grant date and test firm, with eleven exhibit types - grants, test reports, manuals, photos, labels - hanging beneath. Depth skews instructively: Apple, under grantee code BCG, holds 940 FCC IDs.

The companion FCC ID Search - Advanced Query Interface slices the same corpus by company name, product code, model or full text inside filing documents - one sample query for "router" resolved 36 result rows, including a D-Link AX1500 Wi-Fi 6 unit carrying fourteen matched documents across five band listings.

Pair the two layers correctly and they compound: a grantee registration proves a company ships certified hardware into the US market, while the benchmark cells say where production employment actually lands. Treat the regulatory roster as a footprint rather than a headcount - it excludes non-RF communications gear and includes foreign firms that merely sell in - and the triangulation stays honest.

Files, feeds, or straight into your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly - your call.

Pick the geography tier, pick the NAICS cut, pick the rhythm - the same rows arrive whichever way you take them, with identical columns and join keys, so changing frequency later is configuration rather than migration. A weekly county pull joins cleanly against a national benchmark deck built from the same cells.

The shaping happens once, upstream of you: filtering to the three six-digit codes, resolving geography names onto identifier codes, stitching the five-yearly benchmark against the annual series across the 1998 coding break, keeping every imputation range and preliminary-value flag beside the value it qualifies, and typing the thousands-of-dollars units one time. Nobody on your side maintains extraction plumbing. The sample comes first: name the codes and counties, get real rows, then decide.

• Market researchers and consultants hold the anchor record at relevance 3 in their communications-equipment pack: sizing US manufacturing with revenue, employment and payroll by NAICS down to county level is precisely the day job, and the workflow lives on the market researchers use cases page.
• Site selectors and economic-development teams rank counties and metros on establishments and payroll, then read the size classes to see whether a market is many small shops or one anchor plant.
• Sales and growth teams turn establishment counts into territory math - how many production sites sit inside a county or metro and what they spend on payroll.
• Investors and quant researchers read the 2022-versus-2017 deltas and the annual employment lines as structural signals behind hardware exposures, deflated through the price series for real terms.
• Journalists and academics cite an administrative benchmark they can explain in one sentence - a census of employer establishments, not a poll - with the Economic Census glossary entry unpacking the vocabulary.

This page is one thread of a wider map. The communications equipment data guide surveys all 14 pooled records in the industry and places this statistic stack beside its sourcing and demand-cycle clusters.

• How many companies manufacture communications equipment in the United States - the firm-count walkthrough behind the counting question
• County level manufacturer employment data - the county-grid view of the same cells

For browsing rather than building, the communications equipment data hub indexes every record with its field dictionary and coverage chips, and the best communications equipment datasets ranking orders the ten leaders by quality score.