See where your company stands among all 36.2 million U.S. businesses by size, employees, revenue and industry, and how many businesses that started the same year have since closed.
SBA research definition: small = fewer than 500 employees. 36,207,130 businesses, 2022.
Same 36.2 million businesses, split into Census employment-size classes.
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≈ marks a class derived from Census-reported cumulative shares of the 6,395,635 employer firms (<10: 79.2%, <20: 89.4%, <100: 98.2%), reconciled to SBA's exact 1–19 and 20–499 totals. Shares are published to 0.1%, so each derived count carries roughly ±3,200 rounding error.
6,395,635 employer firms by annual receipts, Census 2022, with the 29.8 million nonemployers at the base. A company with 0 employees is placed in the nonemployer tier.
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Census reports 22 receipts classes; adjacent classes are combined here (for example, $10M–$25M joins the $10–15M, $15–20M and $20–25M classes). Census applies low noise (under 2%) to protect confidentiality. Nonemployer counts are not split by revenue in these tables.
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BLS Business Employment Dynamics tracks every cohort of new establishments from opening (years ending in March, 1994–2026) and counts how many still operate in March 2026.
BLS counts establishments (business locations) with paid employees, not firms. A closed location can belong to a firm that still operates, and nonemployer businesses are not tracked. BLS dates a birth from the first paid employee, which can be later than incorporation. Businesses opened before the company and closed after it started are not counted, so the total understates. Incorporations before April 1993 use the 1994 cohort and count from 1994 forward.