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Statistics of U.S. Businesses: 2008:
NAICS 51 - Information
Massachusetts

By detailed employment size By year By industry
 
Massachusetts - Information - 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 2,279 3,831 104,825 8,729,183
Firms with 1 to 4 employees (or with no employees as of Mar 12) 1,010 1,012 1,690 109,757
Firms with 5 to 9 employees 317 317 2,143 122,948
Firms with 10 to 19 employees 261 266 3,532 215,132
Firms with 20 to 99 employees 335 344 12,965 1,048,091
Firms with 100 to 499 employees 129 150 13,401 1,200,587
Firms with 500 employees or more 227 1,742 71,094 6,032,668

 
 
Massachusetts - Information - 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 2,279 30.3% 15.6% 10.0% 104,825 93.0% 80.6% 67.8%
link to 2007 detail 2007 2,334 26.7% 14.4% 9.3% 108,037 93.3% 83.3% 72.6%
link to 2006 detail 2006 2,261 27.6% 14.8% 9.6% 118,145 94.0% 84.7% 75.0%
link to 2005 detail 2005 2,287 28.0% 14.5% 9.7% 118,772 94.2% 84.3% 75.8%
link to 2004 detail 2004 2,354 28.9% 15.0% 9.6% 102,871 93.1% 81.7% 71.2%
link to 2003 detail 2003 2,427 28.5% 14.5% 9.2% 111,896 93.1% 82.0% 71.1%
link to 2002 detail 2002 2,491 26.4% 14.1% 8.6% 120,479 93.5% 84.7% 73.3%
link to 2001 detail 2001 2,534 28.5% 14.4% 8.4% 130,720 93.7% 82.8% 69.1%
link to 2000 detail 2000 2,640 26.9% 13.6% 8.0% 130,343 93.3% 82.6% 69.6%
link to 1999 detail 1999 2,579 26.6% 12.5% 7.4% 115,593 93.0% 81.3% 69.5%
link to 1998 detail 1998 2,487 26.5% 12.6% 7.4% 112,938 92.7% 81.3% 69.5%

 
 
Massachusetts - Information - by Subsector
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.
NAICS
code		 Industry title
(with link to definition) 		Firms by employment size of enterprise Paid employees by employment size of enterprise
Total20 + 100 +500 + Total20 + 100 +500 +
51 Information 2,279 30.3% 15.6% 10.0% 104,825 93.0% 80.6% 67.8%
511 Publishing industries (except Internet) 899 38.2% 18.8% 12.3% 48,816 94.0% 79.3% 66.3%
512 Motion picture and sound recording industries 381 11.3% 5.2% 3.7% 4,204 73.3% 57.6% 47.6%
515 Broadcasting (except Internet) 140 33.6% 25.7% 19.3% 5,263 90.8% D 74.5%
517 Telecommunications 292 25.0% 18.2% 13.0% 27,495 97.1% 94.5% 89.9%
518 Data processing, hosting and related services 355 44.5% 22.3% 13.0% 13,941 92.3% 71.4% 42.4%
519 Other information services 242 23.6% 12.0% 8.7% 5,106 81.4% D 43.1%

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Source: Statistics of U.S. Businesses Questions?