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Annual Receipts Among Employer Businesses in the United States

This brief explores trends in annual receipts among entrepreneurs who start employer businesses in the United States. In this brief, entrepreneurs are defined as employer business owners with at least 51% stock or equity in the business. Receipts are defined as the total sales, shipments, receipts, revenue, or business done by establishments with paid employees.

Highlights include:

  • The majority of employer firms (more than 80%) had receipts in excess of $100,000 in annual value.
  • Male entrepreneurs (28.6%) were more than one-and-a-half times more likely to own firms with receipts greater than $1,000,000 than female entrepreneurs (17.8%).
  • White entrepreneurs (26.1%) were more than one-and-a-half times more likely than African American entrepreneurs (15.0%) to own a business with receipts greater than $1,000,000.
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