Businesses · 2025
14k
Outlook
Contracting
Competition
Moderate, steady
Industry snapshot
Competitive intensity
moderate, 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
Forecast
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2025 base: 14,4602030 est: 17,181
Employment
Base year 2025
Official data (2016-2025) · BLS QCEWForecast
Forecast
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2025 base: 120,5752030 est: 129,349
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