Table 3.

Employer Characteristics by Size, Washington State, 2005 and 2006^a

No. of Employees	No. of Companies,  (%)b	Proportion of All Employeesb	% Offering Health Insurance to			Proportion of Companies That Self-Insurec
			Full-Time Employeesb	Part-Time Employeesb	Dependents of Full-Time Employeesb
2-9	70,631 (67.8)	12.0	59.9	11.2	44.5	13.5
10-24	19,585 (18.8)	11.8	72.4	15.6	61.8
25-49	7,084 (6.8)	9.9	82.4	18.6	75.4
50-99	3,438 (3.3)	9.7	91.3	21.4	87.3
100-499	2,813 (2.7)	22.5	96.0	34.9	94.6	38.9
≥500	521 (0.5)	34.0	99.4	60.8	99.3	83.6
Total	104,072 (100)	100	66.4	14.2	53.6	33.2

^a Data sources: Lockhart (16) and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (17).

^b Limited to companies covered by the state's unemployment insurance law that have ≥2 employees, and are not government, except education and health care (16).

^c Includes companies that have fewer than 100, 100-499, or 500 or more employees (17).