Where does Caterers sit on the thin-tail industry band?

Caterers ranks #428 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $30.9M (TRACE · HOSP).

How much federal contract spending sits under Caterers?

USAspending.gov records show $30.9M in calendar-2024 federal contract awards under NAICS 722320.

Where does the HOSP sector placement for Caterers come from?

Placement is computed from our USAspending.gov calendar-2024 extract ordered by total contract dollars descending (same basis as /industries/).

USAspending.gov · NAICS 722320 · Accommodation and Food Services

Caterers

Name: Caterers (NAICS 722320) - Federal Contract Data
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Thin-tail NAICS industry on the industries board — code 722320 in Accommodation and Food Services.

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CY2024 awards: $30.9M
Corpus rank: #428 of 499
Award plate: TRACE
Sector: HOSP · NICHE

Caterers federal industry awards

Caterers is a thin-tail industry on the NAICS board at $30.9M CY2024 (#428 of 499).

PlainFedContract attributes calendar-2024 contract dollars to NAICS 722320, not firm revenue. Stamp board: TRACE · HOSP. See /methodology/#naics.

Year-over-year change, 2020–2024

Across the calendar years on file, Caterers’s annual contract dollars rose from $23.3M in 2023 to $30.9M in 2024. 32.7% vs 2023 The strongest year on file is 2021 at $40.3M.

Caterers annual contract dollars, calendar 2020-2024

Calendar-year prime contract obligations by action date (award types A-D). Annual figures use the same NAICS classification basis as the CY2024 headline above.

Source: USAspending.gov spending_by_category

How Caterers shows up on the thin-tail award band

$30.9M · #428 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , thin-tail on the NAICS award board (same order as the industries listing). See methodology.

$30.9M under NAICS 722320 · #428 of 499 , TRACE · HOSP · NICHE · DRIFT. Nearest ABS peer: Household Furniture (except Wood at $31.0M (TRACE).

Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 722320 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. Sector weight is light within HOSP. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.

Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury

Thin-tail industry peers nationwide

Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest thin-tail calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.

Closest CY2024 award dollars

Household Furniture (except Wood $31.0M
Electric Bulk Power Transmission and Control $31.2M
Natural Gas Extraction $30.6M
Forest Nurseries and Gathering $30.3M
Apparel Knitting Mills $32.0M
Other Communication $32.1M

Disclaimer: Data from USAspending.gov public records. For informational purposes only. Industry spending amounts are aggregated from contract awards and may not reflect the most current data. Always verify with official sources.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Compiled from USAspending.gov by the PlainFedContract editorial process.

Compiled by PlainFedContract, Government Agencies Editorial Process · August 14, 2026

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