It’s Small Business Saturday!

Small Business SaturdayThere are nearly 28 million small businesses in the U.S., most of which are self-employed.

Did you know small businesses

  • Make up almost 98% of all employer firms?
  • Employ over half of all employees and pay almost half of the the total payroll in the private sector?
  • Have created well over half the new jobs in the past 15 years?
  • Generate more than half the non-farm private GDP?

Sources:

http://www.microbiz.org/small-business-statistics/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonnazar/2013/09/09/16-surprising-statistics-about-small-businesses/