Industries › Fintech & Payments › Phoenix
Across 2 counties, the Phoenix metro counts 114,586 business locations employing 2,080,244 people. The 6,812 with 50–499 employees are the starting pool for a fintech and payments campaign, and Sapper works them by phone first.
| Sector | Locations | Jobs | 50–499 employees | 500+ employees | Change since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail | 11,620 | 246,994 | 1,051 | 14 | +76 |
| Restaurants & food service | 9,383 | 208,309 | 913 | 5 | +345 |
| Health care | 16,243 | 306,069 | 844 | 59 | +760 |
| Professional services | 15,942 | 146,210 | 431 | 19 | +487 |
| Wholesale trade | 4,815 | 87,295 | 303 | 14 | −50 |
| Insurance | 2,982 | 55,922 | 124 | 16 | −149 |
| Banks & credit unions | 1,041 | 38,647 | 46 | 23 | +23 |
Where to start: Retail has the deepest mid-size list here (1,051 locations) and employs 246,994 people in the metro. Health care added the most locations between 2022 and 2023 (+760).
| County | All locations | Finance | Health care | Prof. services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maricopa, AZ | 109,863 | 7,185 | 15,586 | 15,521 |
| Pinal, AZ | 4,723 | 207 | 657 | 421 |
Where the market sits: Maricopa County and Pinal County hold 100.0% of the metro’s business locations across 2 counties. Pinal County has 207 finance and 421 professional services locations.
The metro has 678 locations in activities related to credit intermediation, 103 of them in payment and transaction processing. They are calling the same owners and finance teams you are.
What wins: naming the buyer’s problem in their words, then asking one question. A list of services sounds like everyone else in Phoenix.
1. We agree on the accounts firstYou approve the target list. It is exclusive to you.
2. We introduce you, then keep goingPhone first, backed by email, LinkedIn and mail.
3. We qualify before we bookNeed, timing and who else is involved, confirmed.
4. You walk into a warm conversationWith the account history and a confirmed time.
For a fintech or payments company, we build the list around how your buyers take payments today, their size and the sectors your product fits. In Phoenix, a first pass could start with the 1,051 mid-size retail locations and the 913 in restaurants & food service. How appointment setting works →
The 2-county Phoenix metro has 114,586 business locations. 6,812 have 50–499 employees and 389 have 500 or more (Census County Business Patterns, 2023).
The most mid-size locations are in retail (1,051), followed by restaurants & food service (913).
Titles to test first include financial managers. The metro has 12,030 of them, plus 21,360 accountants and auditors. Your offer decides the final mix, and nothing is called until you approve the list.
Nearby markets: Fintech & Payments in Tucson (108 mi), Fintech & Payments in Las Vegas (256 mi) and Fintech & Payments in San Diego (299 mi).
Selling to contractors or home-service companies instead? See Abstrakt’s Phoenix page.
