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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 1998:
Accounting, tax return prep, bookkeeping, & payroll services
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By detailed employment size By year
 
U.S. - Accounting, tax return prep, bookkeeping, & payroll services 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 93,765 99,083 1,060,647 30,260,516
Firms with no employees (as of March 12) 10,532 10,542 0 357,491
Firms with 1 to 4 employees 56,955 56,986 113,979 2,431,112
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 15,333 15,441 98,588 2,587,571
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 6,553 6,968 85,867 2,691,890
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 3,598 4,940 129,493 4,440,435
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 524 1,358 81,009 2,408,227
Firms with 500 employees or more 270 2,848 551,711 15,343,790
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure

 

 

U.S. - Accounting, tax preparation, bookkeeping, and payroll 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 108,701 6.2% 1.4% 0.5% 1,318,523 73.4% 59.0% 46.7%
link to 2007 detail 2007 108,428 6.0% 1.5% 0.5% 1,357,368 74.5% 61.3% 50.0%
link to 2006 detail 2006 106,636 6.0% 1.5% 0.5% 1,356,770 75.0% 61.8% 50.6%
link to 2005 detail 2005 105,761 6.0% 1.5% 0.6% 1,330,242 75.0% 61.9% 50.7%
link to 2004 detail 2004 103,517 6.1% 1.6% 0.6% 1,390,277 76.0% 63.6% 53.4%
link to 2003 detail 2003 101,246 6.1% 1.6% 0.6% 1,325,118 75.4% 63.0% 53.0%
link to 2002 detail 2002 99,149 5.3% 1.1% 0.3% 1,241,269 74.4% 62.1% 53.0%
link to 2001 detail 2001 95,256 5.2% 1.0% 0.3% 1,191,356 74.2% 61.8% 53.3%
link to 2000 detail 2000 94,067 5.1% 1.0% 0.3% 1,164,194 74.1% 61.8% 53.6%
link to 1999 detail 1999 93,638 4.9% 0.9% 0.3% 1,093,608 72.7% 60.2% 52.1%
link to 1998 detail 1998 93,765 4.7% 0.8% 0.3% 1,060,647 71.9% 59.7% 52.0%


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Source: Statistics of U.S. Businesses

Last modified: July 13 2011   Questions?