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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 1998:
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By detailed employment size By year
 
U.S. - Business/professional/labor/political/& similar organizations 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 68,067 70,034 500,357 14,058,167
Firms with no employees (as of March 12) 4,925 4,937 0 159,731
Firms with 1 to 4 employees 39,829 39,842 79,148 1,724,256
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 11,919 11,977 78,435 1,747,105
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 6,630 6,797 87,529 2,075,496
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 4,165 4,856 147,953 4,245,885
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 498 1,193 75,332 2,905,817
Firms with 500 employees or more 101 432 31,960 1,199,877
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure

 

 

U.S. - Professional and similar organizations - 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 60,364 8.1% 1.1% 0.2% 519,279 55.4% 26.0% 8.9%
link to 2007 detail 2007 61,499 8.1% 1.1% 0.2% 519,905 55.1% 25.4% 8.3%
link to 2006 detail 2006 63,534 8.2% 1.1% 0.1% 546,048 55.5% 25.8% 8.9%
link to 2005 detail 2005 64,973 7.8% 1.0% 0.1% 534,365 53.8% 24.1% 7.5%
link to 2004 detail 2004 64,068 7.8% 1.0% 0.1% 535,002 54.0% 24.7% 8.0%
link to 2003 detail 2003 63,585 7.8% 1.0% 0.1% 522,874 53.6% 23.9% 6.8%
link to 2002 detail 2002 65,708 7.8% 1.0% 0.1% 524,027 53.5% 23.2% 6.8%
link to 2001 detail 2001 66,468 7.5% 1.0% 0.2% 528,732 54.3% 24.8% 8.4%
link to 2000 detail 2000 66,963 7.4% 1.0% 0.1% 529,231 53.9% 24.3% 8.1%
link to 1999 detail 1999 66,707 7.3% 0.9% 0.2% 511,602 52.7% 22.8% 7.5%
link to 1998 detail 1998 68,067 7.0% 0.9% 0.1% 500,357 51.0% 21.4% 6.4%


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Source: Statistics of U.S. Businesses

Last modified: July 13 2011   Questions?