Businesses · 2025
367
Outlook
Growing
Competition
High, steady
Industry snapshot
Competitive intensity
high, steady
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Base year 2025. Each series is official through its own latest government-data year (shown in the legend on each chart), and years beyond that are Claight estimates. As of July 2026 the current year is still in progress (2026 annual data is not yet published), so the forecast runs to 2030.
Number of businesses
Base year 2025
Official data (2016-2025) · BLS QCEWForecast
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2025 base: 3672030 est: 453
Employment
Base year 2025
Official data (2016-2025) · BLS QCEWForecast
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2025 base: 9,1302030 est: 8,793
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