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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 2000:
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By detailed employment size By year
 
U.S. - Legal 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 169,204 176,720 1,088,963 62,140,749
Firms with no employees (as of March 12) 15,679 15,705 0 1,065,702
Firms with 1 to 4 employees 109,490 109,610 211,074 7,349,107
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 24,700 25,004 158,939 6,453,983
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 11,274 12,056 149,118 7,453,122
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 7,011 9,708 258,382 15,818,240
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 842 2,739 159,015 11,173,427
Firms with 500 employees or more 208 1,898 152,435 12,827,168
D = Withheld to avoid disclosure

 

 

U.S. - Legal 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 178,714 4.6% 0.7% 0.2% 1,198,520 54.4% 32.6% 18.0%
link to 2007 detail 2007 181,525 4.5% 0.7% 0.2% 1,206,577 53.8% 32.2% 17.6%
link to 2006 detail 2006 180,727 4.7% 0.7% 0.2% 1,219,383 54.2% 32.1% 17.0%
link to 2005 detail 2005 179,919 4.7% 0.7% 0.1% 1,199,470 54.2% 31.5% 16.2%
link to 2004 detail 2004 177,058 5.0% 0.7% 0.1% 1,218,350 54.5% 31.3% 16.2%
link to 2003 detail 2003 173,308 5.0% 0.7% 0.1% 1,182,581 54.2% 30.9% 15.8%
link to 2002 detail 2002 170,427 4.8% 0.7% 0.1% 1,138,451 53.8% 30.9% 16.4%
link to 2001 detail 2001 169,239 4.7% 0.6% 0.1% 1,110,187 53.2% 30.1% 15.9%
link to 2000 detail 2000 169,204 4.8% 0.6% 0.1% 1,088,963 52.3% 28.6% 14.0%
link to 1999 detail 1999 169,613 4.8% 0.6% 0.1% 1,082,253 51.9% 27.9% 13.0%
link to 1998 detail 1998 170,467 4.7% 0.6% 0.1% 1,049,373 50.6% 26.3% 11.3%


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?