Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 2008:
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| By detailed employment size | By year |
| Employment size of enterprise | Firms |
Estab- lish- ments |
Paid employees |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All firms | 42,880 | 53,643 | 539,581 | 22,093,737 |
| Firms with 1 to 4 employees (or with no employees as of Mar 12) | 27,638 | 27,684 | 45,194 | 1,806,200 |
| Firms with 5 to 9 employees | 6,507 | 6,540 | 42,479 | 1,639,066 |
| Firms with 10 to 19 employees | 3,831 | 3,966 | 50,542 | 2,070,448 |
| Firms with 20 to 99 employees | 3,631 | 4,709 | 136,390 | 5,447,358 |
| Firms with 100 to 499 employees | 984 | 4,684 | 143,316 | 5,417,178 |
| Firms with 500 employees or more | 289 | 6,060 | 121,660 | 5,713,487 |
| Firms with 500 to 749 employees | 92 | 1,285 | 27,061 | 1,086,294 |
| Firms with 750 to 999 employees | 36 | 212 | 8,060 | 349,299 |
| Firms with 1,000 to 1,499 employees | 51 | 1,128 | 24,605 | 1,078,316 |
| Firms with 1,500 to 1,999 employees | 20 | 813 | 6,643 | 262,929 |
| Firms with 2,000 to 2,499 employees | 10 | 144 | 5,412 | 352,844 |
| Firms with 2,500 to 4,999 employees | 31 | 652 | 21,000 | 1,017,538 |
| Firms with 5,000 employees or more | 49 | 1,826 | 28,879 | 1,566,267 |
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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 + | ||
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2008 | 42,880 | 11.4% | 3.0% | 0.7% | 539,581 | 74.4% | 49.1% | 22.5% |
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2007 | 41,937 | 11.0% | 2.9% | 0.7% | 526,320 | 75.1% | 50.3% | 23.0% |
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2006 | 39,743 | 11.4% | 3.0% | 0.7% | 511,318 | 75.1% | 50.0% | 22.2% |
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2005 | 38,120 | 11.6% | 3.0% | 0.7% | 489,935 | 75.2% | 49.7% | 21.5% |
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2004 | 36,274 | 12.1% | 3.1% | 0.7% | 469,925 | 75.0% | 48.5% | 20.2% |
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2003 | 34,860 | 12.4% | 3.2% | 0.7% | 455,164 | 74.9% | 48.3% | 19.5% |
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2002 | 31,655 | 12.4% | 3.3% | 0.8% | 440,782 | 76.4% | 51.4% | 24.6% |
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2001 | 30,506 | 12.6% | 3.3% | 0.8% | 437,429 | 77.5% | 52.5% | 26.3% |
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2000 | 28,522 | 13.2% | 3.4% | 0.9% | 406,692 | 77.2% | 51.3% | 24.3% |
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1999 | 27,856 | 13.3% | 3.5% | 0.9% | 385,897 | 76.7% | 50.3% | 24.1% |
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1998 | 27,348 | 13.2% | 3.4% | 0.9% | 377,239 | 76.4% | 49.4% | 25.3% |
| All-sector table | By detailed employment size | By year | Data in formats for downloading | Other data for NAICS 53131 |