561311 Employment Placement Agencies

Official definition

This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in listing employment vacancies and in recruiting, referring, or placing applicants for employment. The individuals referred or placed are not employees of the employment agencies.

Examples Census gives

• Babysitting bureaus (i.e., registries)
• Employment registries
• Model registries
• Casting agencies or bureaus (i.e., motion picture, theatrical, video)
• Employment agencies

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Providing executive search, recruitment, and placement services are classified in U.S. Industry 561312, Executive Search Services.
• Supplying their own employees for limited periods of time to supplement the working force of a client's business are classified in Industry 561320, Temporary Help Services.
• Providing human resources and human resource management services to client businesses and households are classified in Industry 561330, Professional Employer Organizations.
• Representing models, entertainers, athletes, and other public figures as their agent or manager are classified in Industry 711410, Agents and Managers for Artists, Athletes, Entertainers, and Other Public Figures.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Staffing agency

Activities listed under 561311

The Census index assigns these 32 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Babysitting bureaus (i.e., registries)
• Casting agencies (i.e., motion picture, theatrical, video)
• Casting agencies, motion picture or video
• Casting agencies, theatrical
• Casting bureaus (e.g., motion picture, theatrical, video)
• Casting bureaus, motion picture or video
• Casting bureaus, theatrical
• Chauffeur registries
• Employee recruitment services (non-executive)
• Employment agencies
• Employment agencies, motion picture or video
• Employment agencies, radio or television
• Employment agencies, theatrical
• Employment placement agencies or services
• Employment referral agencies or services
• Employment registries
• Internet job listing services, including intermediary platform services
• Internet resume listing services, including intermediary platform services
• Maid registries
• Model registries
• Nurse registries
• Online employment registries or listing services, including intermediary platform services
• Placement agencies or services, employment
• Referral agencies or services, employment
• Registries, employment
• Registries, teacher
• Ship crew employment agencies
• Ship crew registries
• State operated employment job services offices
• Teacher registries
• Television employment agencies
• Theatrical employment agencies

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 561311

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 561311, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $34 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 7810), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 78101Motion picture, television and other theatrical casting activitiesUK SIC
• 78109Other activities of employment placement agenciesUK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.

Similar codes to compare

• 561312Executive Search Services