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Private Covered Employers Size Class by Industry
March 2011
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Rhode Island has an economy represented by a large number of companies employing a small number of workers. In March 2011 there were 31,795 firms employing 376,946 workers.

Companies with 1-4 employees numbered 15,441 which accounted for 48.6% of the employers in Rhode Island employing 7.7% (29,065) of the work force. The largest employers, those employing 1000+, numbered 29 and employed 16.7% (62,847) of the private sector workforce. 

Private Sector Employment
March 2011
Size
Class

Employers

Employment

Number Percent Number Percent
Total: 31,795 100.0% 376,946 100.0%
Zero 6,104 19.2% 0 0.0%
1-4 15,441 48.6% 29,065 7.7%
5-9 4,489 14.1% 29,375 7.8%
10-19 2,693 8.5% 36,411 9.7%
20-49 1,886 5.9% 56,627 15.0%
50-99 633 2.0% 43,542 11.6%
100-249 391 1.2% 59,630 15.8%
250-499 91 0.3% 30,852 8.2%
500-999 38 0.1% 28,597 7.6%
1000+ 29 0.1% 62,847 16.7%

Smaller companies, those employing less than 20 people, represented 90.4% of all Rhode Island employers and employed 25.2% of the workforce.  

Rhode Island ’s mid-sized companies (20-99 employees) had 26.6% of the private sector employment and accounted for 7.9% of the firms.  

The largest firms in Rhode Island , those employing 100 or more, numbered 549. This is just 1.7% of employers but they employ almost half of the private sector workforce at 48.3%.

It is important to note that changes in size class data are influenced by the switching of employers from one size class to another as well as by new firms coming into the state.

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