In retail, restaurants, manufacturing and four other trades, more owners call their stock too small than too big, in all 76 Census rounds since 2023.
The Census count of businesses with no employees rose by 1.56 million in 2024, to 32 million. Sixteen of 18 sectors grew, and not only the drivers.
In March and April 2020, workplaces under 50 people made 53% of the layoffs. The smallest then made up about half of theirs in extra hiring by December.
Census asked employers what limits remote work. Finance named managing staff at home most, at 8.6%. In most trades, the bigger firms are the ones saying it.
For every 100 business filings flagged as likely to hire, Washington gets 39 new employers within two years and Florida 19. The order has held since 2006.
Firms in their first year supplied 71.0% of America's net new jobs in 2023. Every employer firm aged one to 45, combined, netted a loss of 11,230.
In all 76 Census survey rounds since 2023, businesses of every size expected their overstock to shrink within six months. The shortfall hardly moves.
At workplaces under ten, 38.2% of people who leave are laid off or discharged, up from 31.6% in 2023. The layoffs held flat. The quits fell.
Census asked employers what stops remote work. 60.1% said the job cannot be done at home; 4.0% said managing people there is too costly or complicated.
America's 30.4 million businesses with no employees average $57,611 in receipts, but 60.6% take in under $25,000 and at least 75.5% fall below that average.
In real estate 1.2% of workplaces hold 32.7% of the jobs; in manufacturing 16.7% hold 80.2%. Across sectors the share at fifty-plus runs 25.5% to 89.7%.
Private establishments with 1-9 employees hold 1,186,000 open jobs and fill 683,000 a month — 1.74 standing open per hire made. In 2017 it was 1.02.
14.0% of US businesses with one to four employees call themselves excellent today. Asked to describe the same business six months out, 9.1% do.
300,280 US employer businesses have been open since before 1978. They employ 52,332,869 people — more than the 4,433,985 that are under twenty-six.
2,686,413 people were on the payroll of the 533,856 US workplaces that closed in the year to March 2023. That is 5.03 each — and 8.95 in restaurants.
32.4% of the 2.91M US employer businesses answering Census use contractors, 50.1% use part-timers, and 18.4% have no full-time employee.
61.0% of the 2.92M US employer businesses that answered the Census owner-count question have exactly one owner, and the average one has 8.3 employees.
Census counted 4.21M owners of U.S. employer businesses: 51.3% are 55 or older, 5.7% under 35, and 72% call the business their primary income.
Census asked 4.24M U.S. employer-business owners what they studied: 16.3% hold a management degree. In health care 88.6% have degrees, 5.6% in management.
3,446,110 of America's 6,395,635 employer businesses sell under $500,000 a year and average 2.1 employees. Crossing half a million in sales is where the…
5,390,816 Americans filed to start a business in 2021 and 403,072 of those filings had hired someone two years later — fewer than in 2005, from less…
C-corporations are 14.0% of American employer firms and hold 60.4% of all extra business locations. Under five employees, every legal form runs almost…
Of the 84,523 U.S. dental practices with five or more people, 544 have reached fifty. In 31 of America’s 182 largest trades, under 2% of the non-tiny…
36.6% of the owners of America’s employer firms still own an earlier business; 8.4% had one close. And 48.7% have never run a business before this one.
Outside America’s metro areas, 946,590 workplaces opened between 1996 and 2023 and 947,046 closed. The closing rate is the lower of the two Americas.
