Annual Payroll

 

Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns.

http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

 

County Business Patterns is an annual series that provides economic data by industry. County Business Patterns covers most of the country's economic activity.

 

The series excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employees.

 

Updated annually.

 

Definition:

Annual payroll-- All forms of compensation, such as salaries, wages, reported tips, commissions, bonuses, vacation allowances, sick-leave pay, employee contributions to qualified pension plans, and the value of taxable fringe benefits. For corporations, it includes amounts paid to officers and executives; for unincorporated businesses, it does not include profit or other compensation of proprietors or partners. Payroll is reported before deductions for Social Security, income tax, insurance, union dues, etc.

 

These data exclude governmental establishments except for wholesale liquor establishments (NAICS 4228), retail liquor stores (NAICS 44531), Federally-chartered savings institutions (NAICS 522120), Federally-chartered credit unions (NAICS 522130), and hospitals (NAICS 622).

 

More information:

·        about County Business Patterns

·        about relationships between County Business Patterns and Economic Census data

·        Nonemployer Statistics, covering businesses not included in CBP or the Economic Census