Quote:
Originally Posted by macker
There are six million companies with 500 employees or les in the US today and these are considered small businesses. There are 1,000 companies with 10,000 or more employees in the US and referred to as big businesses. Jim Clifton has done a lot of research in this area and recently put out a great book on this topic. Not my figures but noteworthy for sure.
|
I understand what your saying, but I question it. For example, Canada has 1 million or more small businesses (100 employees and under)
I think in terms of stats what I found is that firms that are considered small business with employees is 6 million.
There are however over 21 million firms in the states that would be considered like micro firms but thats because they don't have traditional payroll, which means they could be single or family businesses, or businesses based around using contractors.
http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
Firms that would be considered large are to me firms that fit in the 2500 employees and up, and they are somewhat numerous as seen in the breakdown above.