Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 2002:
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| By detailed employment size | By year |
| D = Withheld to avoid disclosure | |||||
| Employment size of enterprise | Firms |
Estab- lish- ments |
Paid employees |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Receipts ($1,000) |
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| All firms | 169,908 | 170,720 | 770,851 | 28,410,104 | 250,603,429 |
| Firms with no employees (as of March 12) | 33,164 | 33,164 | 0 | 1,100,083 | 13,293,612 |
| Firms with 1 to 4 employees | 96,373 | 96,375 | 197,776 | 5,331,955 | 52,776,491 |
| Firms with 5 to 9 employees | 24,953 | 24,956 | 159,955 | 4,681,775 | 33,278,742 |
| Firms with 10 to 19 employees | 10,244 | 10,263 | 133,589 | 4,335,324 | 29,927,206 |
| Firms with 20 to 99 employees | 4,696 | 4,788 | 161,168 | 6,529,749 | 49,936,625 |
| Firms with 100 to 499 employees | 357 | 490 | 50,526 | 2,475,713 | 21,012,957 |
| Firms with 500 employees or more | 121 | 684 | 67,837 | 3,955,505 | 50,377,796 |
| Firms with 500 to 749 employees | 20 | 95 | 4,529 | 267,217 | 3,738,401 |
| Firms with 750 to 999 employees | 21 | 79 | (5000-9999) | D | D |
| Firms with 1,000 to 1,499 employees | 15 | 72 | (5000-9999) | D | D |
| Firms with 1,500 to 2,499 employees | 21 | 91 | (10k-24999) | D | D |
| Firms with 2,500 employees or more | 44 | 347 | 35,528 | 2,217,359 | 30,956,028 |
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Year | Firms by employment size of enterprise | Paid employees by employment size of enterprise | ||||||
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| Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | ||
|   | 2002 | 169,908 | 3.0% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 770,851 | 36.3% | 15.4% | 8.8% |
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2001 | 154,774 | 3.3% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 735,386 | 36.7% | 15.3% | 8.1% |
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2000 | 158,881 | 3.5% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 781,012 | 36.7% | 14.7% | 7.5% |
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1999 | 159,525 | 3.1% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 741,588 | 34.4% | 13.6% | 7.0% |
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1998 | 161,068 | 2.7% | 0.3% | 0.1% | 688,495 | 32.4% | 12.9% | 6.3% |
| All-sector table | By detailed employment size | By year | Data in formats for downloading |
Last modified: July 13, 2011
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