In 2011, 24,055 multi-establishment enterprises with at least 250 employees operated in the United States. These enterprises operated 1.3 million individual establishments, earned $19.6 trillion in revenue, employed 55.8 million people, and had a combined annual payroll of $2.9 trillion. More than 1,660 enterprises generated a total of $190.4 billion in revenue from royalties and license fees for rights to use intellectual property. Of the 18,145 enterprises that responded to the contract manufacturing item, nearly 1,100 reported purchasing contract manufacturing services from other enterprises or foreign subsidiaries.

2011 Enterprise Statistics Prototype Tables

Table 1. Summary Statistics for Enterprises: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 2. Royalty and License Fee Income from Rights to Use Intellectual Property: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 3. Royalty and License Fee Income from Rights to Use Intellectual Property (Detail): 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 4. Royalty and License Fee Income from Rights to Use Intellectual Property for Selected Industries: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 5. Manufacturing Activity for Enterprises: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 6. Manufacturing Activity for Enterprises by Sector: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

Table 7. Summary Statistics for Enterprises by Industry: 2011 [<1.0 MB]

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