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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 1998:
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By detailed employment size By year
 
U.S. - Couriers by Employment Size of Enterprise
Introductory text includes scope and methodology. Table includes only establishments with payroll. Nonemployers are shown separately. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.
Employment size of enterprise Firms Estab-
lish-
ments		 Paid
employees		 Annual
payroll
($1,000)
All firms 2,464 6,096 468,988 13,928,686
Firms with no employees (as of March 12) 490 490 0 15,204
Firms with 1 to 4 employees 1,054 1,057 2,033 42,222
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 347 348 2,261 50,272
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 222 230 3,055 62,878
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 252 318 9,721 200,517
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 70 196 11,564 256,370
Firms with 500 employees or more 29 3,457 440,354 13,301,223
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure

 

 

U.S. - Couriers and express delivery services - by Year
Introductory text includes scope and methodology. Table includes only establishments with payroll. Nonemployers are shown separately. For descriptions of column headings and rows (industries), click on the appropriate underlined element in the table.
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data		 Year Firms by employment size of enterprise Paid employees by employment size of enterprise
Total20 + 100 +500 + Total20 + 100 +500 +
link to 2008 detail 2008 3,669 12.0% 2.6% 0.7% 559,131 98.1% 95.7% 94.0%
link to 2007 detail 2007 3,763 11.7% 2.7% 0.8% 528,177 D 95.6% 93.8%
link to 2006 detail 2006 3,578 12.7% 3.0% 0.9% 525,610 98.0% 95.6% 93.4%
link to 2005 detail 2005 3,530 13.1% 3.1% 1.0% 499,722 98.0% 95.2% 93.0%
link to 2004 detail 2004 3,316 14.4% 3.6% 1.1% 501,618 98.1% 95.4% 93.1%
link to 2003 detail 2003 3,309 14.4% 3.5% 1.3% 489,256 98.0% 95.2% 93.1%
link to 2002 detail 2002 3,152 11.5% 2.7% 0.8% 497,358 98.1% 96.0% 94.3%
link to 2001 detail 2001 2,996 12.2% 3.0% 1.0% 513,567 98.2% 96.1% 94.2%
link to 2000 detail 2000 2,762 13.1% 3.5% 1.1% 548,858 98.5% 96.6% 94.6%
link to 1999 detail 1999 2,616 14.1% 3.7% 1.2% 508,558 98.5% 96.5% 94.3%
link to 1998 detail 1998 2,464 14.2% 4.0% 1.2% 468,988 98.4% 96.4% 93.9%


All-sector table By detailed employment size By year Data in formats for downloading

Source: Statistics of U.S. Businesses

Last modified: July 13 2011   Questions?