Nonemployer Statistics
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Nonemployer Statistics
Nonemployer Statistics is an annual series of information about businesses without paid employees that are subject to federal income tax, as described in introductory material. Most nonemployers are self-employed individuals operating very small unincorporated businesses, which may or may not be the owner's principal source of income. These firms are excluded from most other business statistics (the primary exception being the Survey of Business Owners).
Nonemployers account for a majority of all business establishments, but average less than 4 percent of all sales or receipts. For complementary statistics on the firms that do have paid employees, see the Economic Census, County Business Patterns, and Statistics of U.S. Businesses.
Nonemployer Statistics for 2007 were released in June 2009. The press release highlights key findings.
Data in other formats for manipulation and analysis
- Extract and manipulate the data in American FactFinder (2003 to 2007)
- Download the data in comma-delimited format (1997 to 2007)
- See the discussion of Historical Nonemployer Statistics for earlier years, including data for 1997 to 2001 online.
1 Metropolitan statistical areas have an urban core with 50,000 or more inhabitants. Micropolitan statistical areas have an urban core with 10,000 to 49,999 inhabitants. See definitions or maps for metropolitan and micropolitan.
