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2017 Edition

national industry 561330

Professional Employer Organizations

Overview

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing human resources and human resource management services to client businesses and households. Establishments in this industry operate in a co-employment relationship with client businesses or organizations and are specialized in performing a wide range of human resource and personnel management duties, such as payroll, payroll tax, benefits administration, workers' compensation, unemployment, and human resource administration. Professional employer organizations (PEOs) are responsible for payroll, including withholding and remitting employment-related taxes, for some or all of the employees of their clients, and also serve as the employer of those employees for benefits and related purposes.

The immediate parent of national industry 561330 is international industry 56133: Professional Employer Organizations

2017 NAICS Edition Cross References

  • 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; and
  • Listing employment vacancies and referring or placing applicants for employment--are classified in U.S. Industry 561311, Employment Placement Agencies.

Sub-Descriptions

  1. 561330 - Co-employment staffing services
  2. 561330 - Employee leasing services
  3. 561330 - Labor leasing services
  4. 561330 - PEO (professional employer organizations)
  5. 561330 - Professional employer organizations (PEO)
  6. 561330 - Staff leasing services

History

The NAICS editions in which this code was present are indicated below. In the event that a code was changed from the prior edition the equivalent value in that edition is provided for reference.

Edition Existed Equivalent Value
2002 561330
2007 561330
2012 561330
2017 561330
2022 561330

Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) Mappings

  1. 7363 - Help Supply Services

Insurance Industry Mappings

The US Property and Casualty Insurance Industry may use the following classification descriptions which might encompass national industry 561330, Professional Employer Organizations:

  1. administrative and support and waste management and remediation service
  2. administrative and support service
  3. employment agency employee leasing company
  4. employment service
  5. help supply service
  6. professional employer organization
  7. professional employer organization naic

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