annual revenue estimates

In the Census Bureau's Annual Integrated Economic Survey, annual revenue estimates are the survey-based totals that report annual revenue alongside payroll and employment by NAICS industry - the record's own short description names all three measures together.

The dimensionality is what makes them usable for market sizing. The cataloged AIES record publishes at annual frequency by 6-digit NAICS industry crossed with geography, type of operation and tax status; the AIES00BASIC bulk file alone is ~2.6 MB of pipe-delimited rows covering all sectors, and the full 2023 FTP set spans 28 zip packages.

For IT consulting the relevant cell is NAICS 5415, computer systems design and related services - the bucket analysts use to isolate consulting-and-professional-services revenue from government business statistics rather than from vendor marketing decks.

Revenue is the number every TAM slide is built on, so an error here propagates into pricing, territory sizing and fundraising math.

• Unqualified estimates look more precise than they are. The AIES terms note states that "estimates carry published sampling variability (CV columns)" - skip those columns and your $X-billion market claim has no error band.

• Wrong dimensionality silently changes the total. Crossing by tax status or type of operation produces different totals than an all-firms roll-up; buyers who do not check which cut ships compare unlike numbers.

• Vintage matters in fast-moving sectors. AIES runs 2023 onward with Service Annual Survey archives through 2022, so note the break before drawing trend lines.

1. Check the CV columns are present. Census publishes sampling variability beside its AIES estimates; if a vendor's extract drops them, ask why before trusting any figure.
2. Confirm the NAICS depth. Market sizing needs the 6-digit level - NAICS 5415 for IT consulting - not a 3-digit aggregate that mixes unrelated services.
3. Test the free path yourself. The cataloged AIES record is commercial delivery terms and accessible on demand without registration via FTP, so any paywalled "market-size database" can be benchmarked against the source tables.

These entries cover the other measures and keys the AIES publishes beside revenue: - coefficient of variation columns — CV columns are the sampling-variability measures Census publishes beside AIES estimates, indicating how reliable each estimate is. - employment estimates — Employment estimates in the Census AIES count workers by 6-digit NAICS industry, geography, type of operation, and tax status at annual frequency. - naics 5415 — NAICS 5415 is the six-digit industry code for computer systems design and related services, the bucket the Census AIES uses to publish IT consulting revenue, payroll, and employment.