{
  "name": "Las Vegas Retail: 2023 County Industry Reference",
  "description": "2023 CBP employer establishments, employment and annual payroll for Clark County, NAICS 44-45. No measured city profit margins or startup cost estimates.",
  "version": "2023 CBP / extraction 2026-10-09",
  "city": "Las Vegas",
  "state": "Nevada",
  "industry": "retail",
  "reviewStatus": "published source rows checked; county reference",
  "coverage": "Clark County. Clark County includes Las Vegas, other cities and unincorporated areas. The county total is not restricted to the City of Las Vegas. Broad Retail Trade sector, including chains and store categories beyond independent shops; it is not a survey of one retail format. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.",
  "dataCompiledAt": "2026-10-09",
  "sourcesVerifiedAt": "2026-10-09",
  "temporalCoverage": "2023",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "sourcePage": "https://hustlefin.com/benchmarks/retail/city/las-vegas/",
  "metrics": [
    {
      "key": "32003_establishments",
      "label": "Clark County employer establishments",
      "value": 6500,
      "unit": "establishments",
      "sourceField": "est",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "Clark County (FIPS 32003)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 32003 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "key": "32003_employment",
      "label": "Clark County employment (week of March 12)",
      "value": 121153,
      "unit": "employees",
      "sourceField": "emp",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "Clark County (FIPS 32003)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 32003 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "key": "32003_annual_payroll",
      "label": "Clark County annual payroll",
      "value": 4762436,
      "unit": "USD thousands",
      "sourceField": "ap",
      "status": "published",
      "year": 2023,
      "geography": "Clark County (FIPS 32003)",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 32003 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    }
  ],
  "reference": {
    "industry": "retail",
    "industryLabel": "Retail",
    "slug": "las-vegas",
    "city": "Las Vegas",
    "state": "Nevada",
    "naics": "44-45",
    "naicsLabel": "Retail Trade",
    "sourceNaics": "44----",
    "geography": "Clark County",
    "geographyNote": "Clark County includes Las Vegas, other cities and unincorporated areas. The county total is not restricted to the City of Las Vegas.",
    "counties": [
      {
        "fips": "32003",
        "name": "Clark County",
        "establishments": 6500,
        "employment": 121153,
        "annualPayrollThousands": 4762436,
        "employmentFlag": "G",
        "payrollFlag": "G"
      }
    ],
    "establishments": 6500,
    "year": 2023,
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2023/econ/cbp/2023-cbp.html",
    "sourceFile": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
    "retrievedAt": "2026-10-09",
    "sourceSha256": "e9539e96ceb91608ad44ab1cfc651d7c1ff9b88bddfe7a8ff64134ccde6e9603",
    "method": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 32003 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12.",
    "limitations": "Broad Retail Trade sector, including chains and store categories beyond independent shops; it is not a survey of one retail format. Covers establishments with paid employees; nonemployer/sole-operator businesses without payroll are excluded. Chains are not filtered out. Published employment and payroll use disclosure protection; retain source flags. CBP provides no revenue, profit margins, commercial rents, startup budgets or prevailing hourly wages.",
    "wage": null
  },
  "unavailableMetrics": [
    "measured city gross/net margin",
    "typical city revenue",
    "market rent",
    "startup cost distribution",
    "unverified local wage/tax/fee figures"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "label": "U.S. Census Bureau — 2023 CBP release",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/data/datasets/2023/econ/cbp/2023-cbp.html",
      "note": "Published June 26, 2025. This is 2023 data, not 2026 observations."
    },
    {
      "label": "2023 county source file (cbp23co.zip)",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2023/cbp23co.zip",
      "note": "Select cbp23co.txt rows with county FIPS 32003 and raw NAICS 44----; retain published est, emp, ap and noise flags. Sum est only across the listed, disjoint counties; do not sum industry parent and child rows. Annual payroll ap is in thousands of dollars; emp refers to the week of March 12."
    },
    {
      "label": "CBP county record layout",
      "url": "https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/records-layouts/2020_record_layouts/county-layout-2020.txt",
      "note": "Field definitions and disclosure flags."
    },
    {
      "label": "CBP methodology",
      "url": "https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/technical-documentation/methodology.html",
      "note": "Employer coverage and disclosure protection."
    }
  ]
}