Table B1.

Firm Size Distribution

	Nationwide		Towers Watson Sample
Firm Size	Fraction of Firms	Fraction of Employment	Fraction of Firms	Fraction of Employment
0–999	99.8%	55.4%	0.0%	0.0%
1,000–1,499	0.05%	3.0%	1.9%	0.2%
1,500–2,499	0.04%	3.8%	5.6%	0.7%
2,500–4,999	0.03%	5.4%	25.9%	5.5%
5,000–9,999	0.02%	5.4%	22.2%	9.4%
10,000+	0.02%	27.0%	44.4%	84.2%

Notes: Nationwide distribution of firm sizes is based on 2006 data from the Small Business Administration, retrieved from http://archive.sba.gov/advo/research/us92_07ss.txt.