| Table 6-10 |
| U.S. high-technology microbusinesses, by number of firms and employment for selected industries: 2008 |
| |
| |
Firms |
|
Employment |
| High-technology Industry |
Number |
Industry share of firms (%) |
|
Employees |
Industry share of employees (%) |
| |
| All high-technology microbusinesses |
325,447 |
100.0 |
|
465,162 |
100.0 |
| All high-technology services |
300,487 |
92.3 |
|
420,099 |
90.3 |
| Management, scientific, and technical consulting services |
111,965 |
34.4 |
|
138,337 |
29.7 |
| Computer systems design and related services |
80,670 |
24.8 |
|
107,524 |
23.1 |
| Architectural, engineering, and related services |
62,234 |
19.1 |
|
99,932 |
21.5 |
| Professional and commercial equipment and supplies merchant wholesalers |
13,301 |
4.1 |
|
23,786 |
5.1 |
| Scientific research and development services |
7,088 |
2.2 |
|
11,001 |
2.4 |
| Data processing, hosting, and related services |
4,598 |
1.4 |
|
6,883 |
1.5 |
| Management of companies and enterprises |
3,392 |
1.0 |
|
4,365 |
0.9 |
| Software publishers |
2,310 |
0.7 |
|
3,977 |
0.9 |
| Wired telecommunications carriers |
1,521 |
0.5 |
|
2,477 |
0.5 |
| Wireless telecommunications carriers (except satellite) |
717 |
0.2 |
|
1,245 |
0.3 |
| Facilities support services |
642 |
0.2 |
|
1,030 |
0.2 |
| Satellite telecommunications |
388 |
0.1 |
|
583 |
0.1 |
| All high-technology manufacturing |
19,682 |
6.0 |
|
36,515 |
7.8 |
| Metalworking machinery manufacturing |
2,600 |
0.8 |
|
5,306 |
1.1 |
| Other fabricated metal product manufacturing |
2,032 |
0.6 |
|
3,759 |
0.8 |
| Navigational, measuring, electromedical, and control instruments manufacturing |
1,640 |
0.5 |
|
3,036 |
0.7 |
| Other general purpose machinery manufacturing |
1,602 |
0.5 |
|
3,044 |
0.7 |
| Motor vehicle parts manufacturing |
1,555 |
0.5 |
|
2,934 |
0.6 |
| Industrial machinery manufacturing |
1,118 |
0.3 |
|
2,189 |
0.5 |
| Semiconductor and other electronic component manufacturing |
1,098 |
0.3 |
|
1,982 |
0.4 |
| Electrical equipment manufacturing |
648 |
0.2 |
|
1,289 |
0.3 |
| Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing |
495 |
0.2 |
|
804 |
0.2 |
| Pharmaceutical and medicine manufacturing |
466 |
0.1 |
|
848 |
0.2 |
| Communications equipment manufacturing |
382 |
0.1 |
|
659 |
0.1 |
| Aerospace product and parts manufacturing |
366 |
0.1 |
|
592 |
0.1 |
| Audio and video equipment manufacturing |
207 |
0.1 |
|
387 |
0.1 |
| Resin, synthetic rubber, and artificial synthetic fibers and filaments manufacturing |
154 |
0.0 |
|
263 |
0.1 |
| All other industries |
5,278 |
1.6 |
|
8,548 |
1.8 |
| Oil and gas extraction |
4,545 |
1.4 |
|
7,433 |
1.6 |
| Electric power generation, transmission, and distribution |
342 |
0.1 |
|
547 |
0.1 |
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NOTES: Microbusinesses are firms with fewer than five employees and include those reporting no employees on their payroll. Firm is an entity that is either a single location with no subsidiary or branches or topmost parent of a group of subsidiaries or branches. High-technology industries defined by Bureau of Labor Statistics on basis of employment intensity of technology-oriented occupations.
SOURCE: U.S. Census Bureau, Statistics of U.S. Businesses, http://www.census.gov/econ/susb/, accessed 15 March 2011; and Hecker DE. High-technology employment: A NAICS-based update, Monthly Labor Review 128(7):57–72 (2006), http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2005/07/art6full.pdf, accessed 15 March 2011.
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