Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 2008:
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| By detailed employment size | By year | By industry |
| Employment size of enterprise | Firms |
Estab- lish- ments |
Paid employees |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All firms | 25,050 | 31,815 | 490,966 | 28,810,673 |
| Firms with 1 to 4 employees (or with no employees as of Mar 12) | 12,620 | 12,670 | 22,442 | 1,177,500 |
| Firms with 5 to 9 employees | 4,204 | 4,292 | 27,465 | 1,357,415 |
| Firms with 10 to 19 employees | 3,094 | 3,325 | 40,486 | 2,062,774 |
| Firms with 20 to 99 employees | 2,967 | 3,904 | 94,664 | 4,959,527 |
| Firms with 100 to 499 employees | 1,134 | 2,374 | 86,364 | 4,691,688 |
| Firms with 500 employees or more | 1,031 | 5,250 | 219,545 | 14,561,769 |
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Year | Firms by employment size of enterprise | Paid employees by employment size of enterprise | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | ||
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2008 | 25,050 | 20.5% | 8.6% | 4.1% | 490,966 | 81.6% | 62.3% | 44.7% |
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2007 | 25,292 | 19.9% | 8.4% | 4.0% | 466,736 | 80.6% | 61.0% | 44.1% |
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2006 | 24,916 | 20.0% | 8.4% | 4.2% | 463,522 | 80.7% | 60.7% | 44.3% |
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2005 | 24,734 | 19.4% | 8.2% | 4.1% | 450,206 | 80.0% | 60.1% | 44.7% |
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2004 | 24,875 | 19.7% | 8.1% | 4.0% | 437,778 | 79.5% | 58.4% | 43.1% |
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2003 | 25,381 | 19.5% | 8.2% | 4.1% | 430,799 | 78.6% | 57.7% | 41.3% |
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2002 | 25,721 | 19.9% | 8.1% | 4.1% | 432,811 | 78.2% | 56.2% | 39.8% |
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2001 | 25,748 | 20.3% | 8.4% | 4.4% | 456,666 | 78.8% | 57.0% | 41.4% |
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2000 | 26,387 | 19.9% | 8.3% | 4.4% | 457,527 | 78.3% | 56.3% | 41.5% |
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1999 | 26,740 | 19.7% | 8.2% | 4.4% | 442,635 | 77.5% | 55.0% | 39.8% |
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1998 | 27,147 | 19.7% | 8.0% | 4.3% | 436,053 | 76.8% | 53.4% | 38.5% |
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NAICS code |
Industry title (with link to definition) |
Firms by employment size of enterprise | Paid employees by employment size of enterprise | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | Total | 20 + | 100 + | 500 + | ||
| 42 | Wholesale trade | 25,050 | 20.5% | 8.6% | 4.1% | 490,966 | 81.6% | 62.3% | 44.7% |
| 423 | Merchant wholesalers, durable goods | 15,023 | 23.4% | 10.2% | 4.8% | 305,512 | 81.3% | 61.0% | 42.0% |
| 424 | Merchant wholesalers, nondurable goods | 6,771 | 22.2% | 10.0% | 5.2% | 158,198 | 84.9% | 67.7% | 51.4% |
| 425 | Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers | 3,388 | 6.7% | 1.6% | 0.7% | 27,256 | 65.7% | 45.7% | 36.0% |
| All-sector table | By detailed employment size | By year | By industry | Data in formats for downloading | Other data for NAICS 42 |