33 of 261 industries met these criteria.
| Filter | Setting |
|---|---|
| Jurisdiction | any |
| Licence gate band | any |
| Minimum operators | none |
| Maximum operators | none |
| Minimum median wage | none |
| Sector | any |
| Ranked by | net establishment formation, 5-year entry rate minus exit rate |
Every filter is a figure from a named federal source. There is no growth-potential setting, because we would have to invent the number behind it. These criteria are inside the content hash, so the recipient can re-run this exact screen — and can tell whether they were chosen before or after seeing what they produced.
| Industry | NAICS | Net formation | Operators | Licensed in | The work | Median wage | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Other Financial Vehicles | 525990 | +10.60% | 1,282 | none | — | — |
| 2 | Open-End Investment Funds | 525910 | +10.60% | 209 | none | — | — |
| 3 | General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Less Than T | 484122 | +7.15% | 9,678 | none | — | — |
| 4 | General Freight Trucking, Local | 484110 | +7.15% | 45,076 | none | — | — |
| 5 | General Freight Trucking, Long-Distance, Truckload | 484121 | +7.15% | 59,133 | none | — | — |
| 6 | Facilities Support Services | 561210 | +6.64% | 8,127 | none | — | — |
| 7 | Monetary Authorities-Central Bank | 521110 | +6.15% | 12 | none | — | — |
| 8 | Educational Support Services | 611710 | +5.58% | 11,396 | none | — | — |
| 9 | Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers | 711510 | +5.48% | 37,712 | none | — | — |
| 10 | Ice Manufacturing | 312113 | +5.42% | 54 | none | — | — |
| 11 | Wineries | 312130 | +5.42% | 3,676 | none | — | — |
| 12 | Breweries | 312120 | +5.42% | 4,290 | none | — | — |
| 13 | Soft Drink Manufacturing | 312111 | +5.42% | 322 | none | — | — |
| 14 | Bottled Water Manufacturing | 312112 | +5.42% | 53 | none | — | — |
| 15 | Distilleries | 312140 | +5.42% | 734 | none | — | — |
| 16 | One-Hour Photofinishing | 812922 | +5.24% | 12 | none | — | — |
| 17 | All Other Personal Services | 812990 | +5.24% | 23,647 | none | — | — |
| 18 | Pet Care (except Veterinary) Services | 812910 | +5.24% | 24,378 | none | — | — |
| 19 | Parking Lots and Garages | 812930 | +5.24% | 11,799 | none | — | — |
| 20 | Photofinishing Laboratories (except One-Hour) | 812921 | +5.24% | 140 | none | — | — |
| 21 | All Other Support Activities for Transportation | 488999 | +4.76% | 498 | none | — | — |
| 22 | Packing and Crating | 488991 | +4.76% | 1,120 | none | — | — |
| 23 | Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers | 531210 | +4.64% | 163,019 | none | — | — |
| 24 | Child and Youth Services | 624110 | +4.40% | 15,097 | none | — | — |
| 25 | Other Individual and Family Services | 624190 | +4.40% | 36,303 | none | — | — |
| 26 | Services for the Elderly and Persons with Disabiliti | 624120 | +4.40% | 38,927 | 40 | Personal Care and Service Work | $37,900 |
| 27 | Other Management Consulting Services | 541618 | +4.31% | 13,761 | none | — | — |
| 28 | Marketing Consulting Services | 541613 | +4.31% | 51,209 | none | — | — |
| 29 | Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consul | 541614 | +4.31% | 7,493 | none | — | — |
| 30 | Administrative Management and General Management Con | 541611 | +4.31% | 103,333 | none | — | — |
| 31 | Environmental Consulting Services | 541620 | +4.31% | 8,695 | none | — | — |
| 32 | Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services | 541690 | +4.31% | 26,747 | none | — | — |
| 33 | Human Resources Consulting Services | 541612 | +4.31% | 7,860 | none | — | — |
Ordered by net establishment formation, which carries a rank correlation of +0.567 with the following decade's growth across four independent backtested windows and separates top from bottom deciles by 42.6 percentage points. It describes an INDUSTRY, not a business within it, and it was calibrated against establishment growth rather than returns to an operator.
| Limit |
|---|
| It ranks industries, not businesses. A specific operation may do better or worse than its industry for reasons no public dataset records. |
| The signal was graded against establishment growth. That is the best proxy the public record offers for a good market, not the right one — the right one would be returns to an owner, and no free source publishes it. |
| 228 of the 261 RANKABLE industries were excluded by the criteria above. A further 695 could not be ranked at all: they hold establishment and dynamics data but have no defining occupation, which is what the licence gate is derived through. Those are absent for a COVERAGE limit, not for failing a filter — an industry missing here was not judged and found wanting. |
| Licence figures come from a register holding 54 of 56 US jurisdictions. An occupation showing no gate has no MATCHING RECORD, which is not the same as being unlicensed. |
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