USAspending.gov · NAICS 238220 · Construction
Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors
Top-third NAICS industry by calendar-2024 contract dollars — code 238220 in Construction.
- CY2024 awards
- $1.1B
- Corpus rank
- #81 of 499
- Award plate
- HEAVY
- Sector
- CONST · NICHE
Plumbing, Heating, federal industry awards
Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors (NAICS 238220) ranks #81 of 499 tracked industries by calendar-2024 contract dollars at $1.1B.
PlainFedContract reports USAspending.gov calendar-2024 awards under NAICS 238220. Stamp board: HEAVY · CONST · CLIMBER. See /methodology/#naics.
Year-over-year change, 2019–2024
Across the calendar years on file, Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors’s annual contract dollars rose from $1.0B in 2023 to $1.1B in 2024. 10.8% vs 2023
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.
How Plumbing, Heating, leads the CY2024 industry award board
$1.1B · #81 of 499 by CY2024 industry awards , a top-third NAICS industry by calendar-2024 contract dollars (same board as the industries listing). See methodology.
$1.1B under NAICS 238220 · #81 of 499 , HEAVY · CONST · NICHE · CLIMBER. 2019→2024: 90→81 of 499 (0.14%→0.15% of tracked industry dollars) ; #6/22 in CONST. That is a 9-place move over 5 years. Nearest ABS peer: Telemarketing Bureaus at $1.1B (HEAVY).
Calendar-2024 actions under NAICS 238220 count as opportunity size, not firm revenue. Sector weight sits in a mid band within CONST. Populations, lag, and NAICS/SBA rules: methodology.
Source: USAspending.gov · U.S. Department of the Treasury
Mega-scale industry peers nationwide
Cross-sector peers from the USAspending NAICS extract: nearest mega-scale calendar-2024 award dollars and nearest sector-weight share. Not recommendations.
Closest CY2024 award dollars
Similar sector weight
- Wired Telecommunications Carriers 2.2% · $404.4M
- All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care… 2.2% · $292.1M
- Professional Organizations 2.3% · $110.9M
- Police Protection 2.3% · $18.0M
- Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless… 2.3% · $5.1B
- Postal Service 2.3% · $56.6M
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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