NAICS 561710Canadian industry · 6-digitlocal market1 market record

Exterminating and pest control services

This Canadian industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in exterminating and controlling birds, insects, rodents, termites, and other pests. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

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Establishments · CanadaA: 744
Under 10 employeesA: 80%
Establishments · USA: 16,080
Employment · USA: 139,917
Payroll · USA: $7.0B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–443058%

5–916322%

10–197810%

20–49497%

50–99182%

100–19951%

200–49910%

500+0—

Of 744 Canadian establishments with employees, 80% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario30541%

Quebec16722%

British Columbia12517%

Alberta638%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Administrative and Waste Services, US · opened 2020

79.4%

1 year

63.6%

3 years

51.5%

5 years

37%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 561, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionlow capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 561 Administrative and support services

Janitorial, landscaping, security and staffing: low capital and easy to start, so margins are competed down to labour cost. Route density and contract retention decide the outcome.

Who sets the price: Tender and the client's procurement; labour is most of the cost.
The software it runs on: Workforce scheduling, route and work-order management, staffing front and back office.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreened

Pest Control Business SoftwareOne thing must be true

binding constraint: incumbent vulnerability

Incumbent Split by segment: PestPac (WorkWave, an IFS company) at the enterprise and multi-branch end, now Rentokil Terminix's North American standard; FieldRoutes (ServiceTitan; formerly PestRoutes) at the high-growth residential and door-to-door-sales end

Pest-control software has already been bought. Three owners hold the named category leaders. WorkWave, an IFS company, sells PestPac to the enterprise end. ServiceTitan bought ServicePro/ServSuite in February 2021 [B] and FieldRoutes, formerly PestRoutes, in a deal announced 4 January 2022 [B]. ServiceTitan's own homepage now routes its "Pest Control" trade to FieldRoutes [C]. EverCommerce bought Briostack in January 2021 [B]. All acquisition terms in those releases are undisclosed. The biggest buyers run their own systems or the incumbent's. Rollins (NYSE: ROL; $3.76B 2025 revenue, 26 acquisitions in 2025, more than two million customers [A, 10-K]) runs branches on its proprietary BOSS system with virtual route management, plus InSite for commercial customers. Rentokil Terminix is moving its North American branches onto PestPac. Its 2024 results say the share of technicians on PestPac and the ServiceTrak app rose from about 40% to about 49% in the year, and 58 branches (987 technicians, $373M of revenue) moved onto the unified platform [A, Rentokil 6-K]. The two largest operators in the market are therefore not open to a new system of record. One runs its own software, and the other has picked PestPac. The small end is priced near the floor. GorillaDesk sells at $49, $99 and $149 a month, month to month, with free data migration and an account freeze for seasonal businesses [C, vendor pricing page]. Jobber (400,000+ home-service pros claimed [C]; $176M raised [B]) lists chemical tracking, routing and a client portal on its pest-control page. Pocomos (300+ businesses claimed [C]) is still independent. FieldRoutes prices on active customer count and publishes no prices [C]. Recent venture money has gone around the system of record, not into it. Pest Share (Nampa, Idaho) raised a $28M Series A led by Integrity Growth Partners in September 2025 [B]. It is a marketplace that routes apartment pest jobs to 400+ vetted providers, not operator software. Driven (Provo, formerly Pest IQ; $600K pre-seed from Startup Ignition Ventures [B]) sells a performance layer that sits on top of PestPac, FieldRoutes, Briostack and GorillaDesk. Both bets assume the operator software is settled. The regulatory record is real but already met. BC's Integrated Pest Management Regulation (s.35) requires a per-day, per-location record of use: recipient, certified applicator, pest, product and PCP registration number, rate and quantity, weather for outdoor use, and the IPM monitoring method and threshold. Section 83 says the record must be kept 3 years [A]. That is a report template, not a product, and Jobber already ships chemical tracking. Incumbent vulnerability decides it. The incumbents are owned by well-capitalised strategic or PE parents, the top buyers are taken, and the open SMB tier is $49–$149 a month. What remains is an operator angle: a BC firm that knows exactly which provincial annual-report fields the US tools miss could sell a compliance add-on that plugs into them.

NAICS 56171010 vendors named3 sourced figuresOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 10

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
GorillaDeskPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	1/10
Real GreenPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	2/10
BriostackPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	3/10
DrivenPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	4/10
FieldRoutesPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	5/10
Pest SharePrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	6/10
PestPacPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	7/10
PocomosPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	8/10
Rollins BOSSPrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	9/10
ServSuitePrivate	Exterminating and pest control services561710	—	10/10

Who works here

The occupations employed in Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Security guards and related security service occupations Mostly one sector 69.7%

Contractors and supervisors, agriculture, horticulture and related operations and services Mostly one sector 67.9%

Logging, forestry, landscaping and other related labourers Mostly one sector 56%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 16.8%

Service supervisors Mostly one sector 14.2%

Tourism and amusement services occupations Mostly one sector 12.9%

Educational and employment counsellors Mostly one sector 8.5%

Logging and forestry workers Mostly one sector 6.4%

Labourers in processing, manufacturing and utilities Mostly one sector 6.3%

Roofers, glaziers, painters, decorators and floor covering installers One industry 4.7%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Other technical trades Across the economy 29.2%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 15%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 13.5%

Technical occupations in electronics and electrical engineering Across the economy 6.6%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 5.1%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 4.8%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 4.5%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 4%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 3.9%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 80% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.

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