Self-employment method
All Other Consumer Goods Rental
15,828 people filed as a nonemployer business under this industry code in 2022 — no payroll, no employees, just them. These are gross receipts reported to the IRS, before any expense is taken out.
Median GROSS RECEIPTS for the year — money in, before rent, materials, fuel, insurance or tax. This is not take-home pay.
Share who grossed under $10,000 for the whole year — before expenses.
The middle half, in gross receipts. A quarter of filers took less than the lower figure.
Source: US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
How often it does not work out
Of the 15,828 people who filed under this code in 2022, 41.50% grossed under $10,000 for the entire year — before a single expense was deducted.
That is a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes GROSS RECEIPTS, not net income. Everyone inside that share earned less than the figure suggests once rent, materials, mileage, insurance and self-employment tax came out — and filers who grossed well above the threshold may still have netted nothing. The true share of people who earn nothing meaningful from this is higher than the number above, never lower.
Denominator: establishments_total = 15,828 · US Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2022 · view
Every filer, by what they grossed
The full receipts distribution as Census publishes it. The median above is interpolated inside whichever band contains the 50th percentile, so this table is what that figure is derived from.
| Gross receipts for the year | Filers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Under $5,000 | 3,811 | 24.1% |
| $5,000 to $9,999 | 2,758 | 17.4% |
| $10,000 to $24,999 | 3,620 | 22.9% |
| $25,000 to $49,999 | 2,151 | 13.6% |
| $50,000 to $99,999 | 1,611 | 10.2% |
| $100,000 to $249,999 | 1,219 | 7.7% |
| $250,000 to $499,999 | 475 | 3.0% |
| $500,000 to $999,999 | 127 | 0.8% |
| $1,000,000 to $2,499,999 | 56 | 0.4% |
Who this suits
Median gross receipts of $15,573 put the typical filer somewhere between a serious side income and a failing attempt at a full-time one, and the receipts figure alone cannot tell you which.
15,828 filers is small enough that All Other Consumer Goods Rental is a niche rather than a market — the work exists, but there is no depth of demand to fall back on.
11.9% cleared $100,000 in receipts. That is a meaningful upper tier and it is worth asking what separates them, because it is rarely effort alone.
Independent real estate and leasing work suits people with enough runway to survive a transaction cycle, since income arrives in irregular lumps rather than monthly.
There is no training requirement to file under this code — which is precisely why so many people appear in the bottom bands. Entry being free is not the same as the work being viable.
Who should not do this
The top quarter of All Other Consumer Goods Rental earns 8.5x the bottom quarter — under $5,265 against over $44,549, a spread of $39,284. Distributions this stretched are usually two different jobs sharing one label, and any average across them means little.
The bottom quarter of All Other Consumer Goods Rental earns under $5,265 — $44,755 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.
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Of the 15,828 people who filed as All Other Consumer Goods Rental in 2022, 41.5% grossed under $10,000 for the year — 6,568 people who did not clear a part-time wage in revenue, let alone in profit.
Read that as a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes gross receipts, not net income, so everyone inside that share earned less than $10,000 suggests once costs came out — and filers who grossed well above $10,000 may still have netted nothing.
What the spread tells you
A ratio of 8.5x between the quarters is the signature of a winner-take-most distribution. $15,573 is a real number about a real population, but nobody entering All Other Consumer Goods Rental should plan around it.
In cash terms the middle half of All Other Consumer Goods Rental runs $5,265 to $44,549 — $39,284 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $15,573.
Getting to $44,549, the 75th percentile, is worth $28,976 a year more than the $15,573 midpoint and $39,284 more than the $5,265 a quarter of All Other Consumer Goods Rental settle for.
Per hour at a standard full-time year that is $7.48 at the midpoint for All Other Consumer Goods Rental, $2.53 at the 25th percentile and $21.41 at the 75th, against $24.04 for the typical American job.
Counted straight off the return: 3,811 filers grossed under $5,000, 2,758 took $5,000 to $9,999, 3,620 took $10,000 to $24,999, 1,877 cleared $100,000 and 658 cleared $250,000.
What these figures are, and what they are not
Every figure above is GROSS RECEIPTS, before expenses — money that arrived before rent, materials, fuel, insurance and self-employment tax. The $15,573 midpoint for All Other Consumer Goods Rental is not take-home pay and is not comparable to a $15,573 salary.
With no unpaid-hours or cost data for All Other Consumer Goods Rental, the hourly figure is $15,573 over a 2,080-hour year — a unit conversion, not an adjustment.
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