How many sign shops are in the Bridgeport area?

Name: Sign shops in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area, 2024
Creator: Sign Trade Data
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22 sign shops

in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area in 2024. They employed 112 people, about 5.1 per shop, at an average of $58,499 a year. Sign shops make up a 21% smaller share of local private employers than they do nationally. The area holds 24.4% of Connecticut's sign shops.

Shops vs 2023+4.8%1 more shops than 2023

Concentration0.79×the national share of employers

Employees1125.1 per shop

Average pay$58,4998% below the U.S. average

The Bridgeport area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
56	Fresno areaCA	23	—	—	0.73×
56	Palm Bay areaFL	23	145	$62,429	1.94×
56	Wichita areaKS	23	244	$54,117	2.08×
59	Bridgeport areaCT	22	112	$58,499	0.79×
59	Buffalo areaNY	22	293	$60,507	1.16×
59	Cape Coral areaFL	22	212	$56,623	1.21×
59	Charleston areaSC	22	—	—	1.12×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. For Connecticut as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Connecticut page.

Other metro areas in Connecticut

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Hartford area	29	288	$75,298	1.06×
New Haven area	17	108	$61,136	1.30×
Waterbury area	9	110	$79,684	1.06×
Norwich area	7	31	$43,488	1.22×

Sign permits in Bridgeport

Sign permits are issued city by city, and the permit is often the slowest step in a sign job. The rules a shop works under in Bridgeport, from permit triggers to size and lighting limits, are set out in a plain-English guide to Bridgeport's sign regulations from PrinterFlo.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Bridgeport area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 22 sign manufacturing establishments in the Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 59 of 383 U.S. metro areas. They employed 112 people, about 5.1 per shop.

What do sign shops pay in the Bridgeport area?

Average annual pay in the area's sign shops was $58,499 in 2024, 8% below the U.S. sign industry average of $63,399. It blends fabricators, installers, designers and owners on payroll.

Does the Bridgeport area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, no: sign shops make up a 21% smaller share of the Bridgeport area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 0.79, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.