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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 1998:
Other similar organizations (exc bus, prof, labor, & political)
United States
By detailed employment size By year
 
U.S. - Other similar organizations (exc bus, prof, labor, & political) 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 24,033 24,333 136,787 3,021,439
Firms with no employees (as of March 12) 2,439 2,439 0 43,220
Firms with 1 to 4 employees 14,701 14,701 26,692 487,901
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 3,384 3,388 22,579 480,308
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 2,128 2,138 28,345 623,420
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 1,244 1,307 41,944 912,457
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 103 238 13,543 366,963
Firms with 500 employees or more 34 122 3,684 107,170
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure

 

 

U.S. - Other 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 20,377 6.4% 0.8% 0.1% 136,006 47.5% 19.0% 4.3%
link to 2007 detail 2007 21,332 6.1% 0.7% 0.1% 138,461 46.2% 18.2% 4.2%
link to 2006 detail 2006 21,877 6.2% 0.7% 0.1% 145,547 48.2% 20.0% 6.0%
link to 2005 detail 2005 22,302 6.0% 0.7% 0.1% 144,605 47.5% 19.1% 4.4%
link to 2004 detail 2004 21,891 6.1% 0.7% 0.1% 140,460 46.8% 17.9% 3.7%
link to 2003 detail 2003 21,433 6.3% 0.7% 0.1% 135,573 46.9% 16.7% 2.0%
link to 2002 detail 2002 22,580 6.3% 0.7% 0.1% 143,426 46.9% 16.8% 4.0%
link to 2001 detail 2001 23,664 6.0% 0.6% 0.1% 144,707 45.4% 14.9% 3.7%
link to 2000 detail 2000 23,757 6.0% 0.6% 0.1% 144,373 45.3% 14.5% 4.2%
link to 1999 detail 1999 23,704 5.8% 0.6% 0.1% 139,366 44.0% 13.5% 3.4%
link to 1998 detail 1998 24,033 5.7% 0.6% 0.1% 136,787 43.3% 12.6% 2.7%


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?