Operate · the United States
Underwriting: Painting and Wall Covering Contractors
What public records can and cannot establish about running this business in the United States, dimension by dimension, with the gaps named.
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NOT SCORED. 65 of 100 rubric points are evidenced deterministically from public records; 10 have no producer. The ±3.1 interval measured elsewhere on this site is ARBITER's sampling variance and does not apply to a SQL query, which returns the same answer every time it runs.
IndustryNAICS 238320
Scopethe United States
RubricO1.0-20260804
Pricedfree — no account, no gate
70th percentile of 287 industries
Where this industry stands
| Net formation, 5yr | Percentile | Reads as | Signal strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| +1.45% | 70th of 287 | forming faster than it is dying | ρ 0.57 across 4 backtested windows, 42.6pp decile separation |
Economic Census 2022
What it costs to produce
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Margin on receipts | 73.5% |
| Computed as | value added — receipts less cost of subcontracted work |
| Industry receipts | $33.0bn |
SBA 7(a) acquisition loans · FY2010–FY2026
Can you borrow to buy one
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Acquisition loans approved | 2,694 |
| Median loan | $54,024 |
| Mean rate | 7.78% |
| Mean term | 102 months |
| Charged off | 9.7% |
37,830 firms · Census SUSB 2022
What firms here actually earn
| Revenue band ($000) | Firms | Share | Cumulative | Labour share of revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <100 | 11,754 | 31.1% | 31.1% | 33.3% |
| 100-499 | 15,085 | 39.9% | 70.9% | 38.2% |
| 500-999 | 4,526 | 12.0% | 82.9% | 35.1% |
| 1,000-2,499 | 3,805 | 10.1% | 93.0% | 31.1% |
| 2,500-4,999 | 1,473 | 3.9% | 96.9% | 28.5% |
| 5,000-7,499 | 499 | 1.3% | 98.2% | 28.2% |
| 7,500-9,999 | 217 | 0.6% | 98.8% | 27.0% |
| 10,000-14,999 | 202 | 0.5% | 99.3% | 28.9% |
| 15,000-19,999 | 99 | 0.3% | 99.6% | 25.7% |
| 20,000-24,999 | 50 | 0.1% | 99.7% | 30.0% |
| 25,000-29,999 | 30 | 0.1% | 99.8% | 23.9% |
| 30,000-34,999 | 19 | 0.1% | 99.8% | 33.0% |
| 35,000-39,999 | 13 | 0.0% | 99.8% | 28.0% |
| 40,000-49,999 | 11 | 0.0% | 99.9% | 29.7% |
| 50,000-74,999 | 20 | 0.1% | 99.9% | 22.9% |
| 75,000-99,999 | 9 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 11.3% |
| 100,000+ | 18 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 41.8% |
SBA 7(a) · FY2010–FY2026
Can an acquisition here be financed?
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| SBA acquisition loans on record | 2,694 |
| Median loan | $54,024 |
| Typical rate | 7.78% |
| Typical term | 102 months |
| Total approved | $396,997,700 |
| Charge-off rate, seasoned cohorts | 9.7% |
| Loans that reached an outcome | 1,167 |
| Rank among industries | 82th of 501 |
Take this away
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|---|---|
| download the document → | One self-contained file — no stylesheet, no fonts, no scripts. Works offline, prints, and carries a content hash anyone can verify at /verify without an account. |
| JSON → | The same figures as data, with every source and gap attached. |
65 of 100 rubric points evidenced
What this report can and cannot underwrite
| Dimension | Weight | Evidence | Predicts? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O1 · Demand density and recurrence | 25 | evidenced | predictive · ρ +0.57 | US Census County Business Patterns |
| O2 · Payment evidence | 15 | partial | not backtested | USASpending.gov — US federal government work, public domain |
| O3 · Licence gate favourability | 15 | evidenced | not backtested | CareerOneStop / ARC, U.S. Department of Labor |
| O4 · Labour availability | 15 | evidenced | not backtested | BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024 |
| O5 · Incumbent weakness | 10 | no producer | not backtested | none |
| O6 · Margin structure | 10 | partial | not backtested | US Census Economic Census 2022 |
| O7 · Ceiling | 10 | evidenced | DESCRIPTIVE ONLY · ρ +0.05 | US Census Business Dynamics Statistics — public domain |
Every licensed occupation in this industry
| Occupation | Share here | Concentration | Jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers | 6.79% | 11.3× | 16 of 56 |
| Painters, Construction and Maintenance | 66.67% | 360.4× | 6 of 56 |
| Cost Estimators | 2.0% | 12.0× | 1 of 56 |
| General and Operations Managers | 3.16% | 1.3× | 23 of 56 |
| Construction Laborers | 1.87% | 2.5× | 10 of 56 |
| Carpenters | 1.75% | 3.7× | 4 of 56 |
| Office Clerks, General | 3.29% | 1.9× | 1 of 56 |
What this report cannot tell you
| Gap |
|---|
| licence titles in this scope — none matched 'Painters, Construction and Maintenance', though it is licensed in 16 jurisdictions nationally. The title differs locally, or the record is held municipally. |
| licence coverage — the register holds 54 of 56 US licensing jurisdictions, and 2,504 of its records carry no jurisdiction at all. A count of 16 is out of 54 searched, not out of 56. The unsearched jurisdictions are not evidence of no licence. |
| bonding_required_usd — no producer, and not estimated |