All LinkedIn Industries 2022
January 13, 2020 3:12 am
Curious about which industries are represented on LinkedIn? Here’s a current list of all Linked Industries in 2022.
There are caveats and specifics at the end of this list. Get ready to scroll and check out commentary because we have years of experience using Industry as a query for LinkedIn prospecting.
Accounting |
Airlines/Aviation |
Alternative Dispute Resolution |
Alternative Medicine |
Animation |
Apparel & Fashion |
Architecture & Planning |
Arts and Crafts |
Automotive |
Aviation & Aerospace |
Banking |
Biotechnology |
Broadcast Media |
Building Materials |
Business Supplies and Equipment |
Capital Markets |
Chemicals |
Civic & Social Organization |
Civil Engineering |
Commercial Real Estate |
Computer & Network Security |
Computer Games |
Computer Hardware |
Computer Networking |
Computer Software |
Construction |
Consumer Electronics |
Consumer Goods |
Consumer Services |
Cosmetics |
Dairy |
Defense & Space |
Design |
Education Management |
E-Learning |
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing |
Entertainment |
Environmental Services |
Events Services |
Executive Office |
Facilities Services |
Farming |
Financial Services |
Fine Art |
Fishery |
Food & Beverages |
Food Production |
Fund-Raising |
Furniture |
Gambling & Casinos |
Glass, Ceramics & Concrete |
Government Administration |
Government Relations |
Graphic Design |
Health, Wellness and Fitness |
Higher Education |
Hospital & Health Care |
Hospitality |
Human Resources |
Import and Export |
Individual & Family Services |
Industrial Automation |
Information Services |
Information Technology and Services |
Insurance |
International Affairs |
International Trade and Development |
Internet |
Investment Banking |
Investment Management |
Judiciary |
Law Enforcement |
Law Practice |
Legal Services |
Legislative Office |
Leisure, Travel & Tourism |
Libraries |
Logistics and Supply Chain |
Luxury Goods & Jewelry |
Machinery |
Management Consulting |
Maritime |
Market Research |
Marketing and Advertising |
Mechanical or Industrial Engineering |
Media Production |
Medical Devices |
Medical Practice |
Mental Health Care |
Military |
Mining & Metals |
Motion Pictures and Film |
Museums and Institutions |
Music |
Nanotechnology |
Newspapers |
Non-Profit Organization Management |
Oil & Energy |
Online Media |
Outsourcing/Offshoring |
Package/Freight Delivery |
Packaging and Containers |
Paper & Forest Products |
Performing Arts |
Pharmaceuticals |
Philanthropy |
Photography |
Plastics |
Political Organization |
Primary/Secondary Education |
Printing |
Professional Training & Coaching |
Program Development |
Public Policy |
Public Relations and Communications |
Public Safety |
Publishing |
Railroad Manufacture |
Ranching |
Real Estate |
Recreational Facilities and Services |
Religious Institutions |
Renewables & Environment |
Research |
Restaurants |
Retail |
Security and Investigations |
Semiconductors |
Shipbuilding |
Sporting Goods |
Sports |
Staffing and Recruiting |
Supermarkets |
Telecommunications |
Textiles |
Think Tanks |
Tobacco |
Translation and Localization |
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad |
Utilities |
Venture Capital & Private Equity |
Veterinary |
Warehousing |
Wholesale |
Wine and Spirits |
Wireless |
Writing and Editing |
Caveats
Industry is completed by the person who creates the LinkedIn Company Page. Some small businesses are not particularly precise in this and others are not careful in choosing the company at which they’re employed.
The biggest example here is Accounting. Accounting is alphabetically first and some careless companies and other “fake” companies are listed as accounting. This results in ample false positives when using Accounting as a filter.
Another fascinating phenomenon is that of “companies of convenience”. These loose affiliations of profiles all work non-traditional job titles (such as “unemployed”) at a myriad of loose pseudo-organizations such as the following:


These false positives are abated with the addition of another filter like “Job Title” or “Seniority Level”. These few duds are rare, but worth noting.