Each year, we collect information on the number of businesses operating in Washington and how many people they employ. We sort these businesses into size groups and break the numbers down by industry and by county. To protect the privacy of individual businesses, we carefully review the data before releasing it.
You can use this report to help you understand the structure of Washington’s labor market.
Latest reports
- 2025: establishment size by number of employees (XLSX, 51KB)
- 2024: establishment size by number of employees (XLSX, 50KB)
Past reports
- 2023: establishment size by number of employees, revised (XLSX, 50KB)
- 2022: establishment size by number of employees, revised (XLSX, 50KB)
- 2021: establishment size by number of employees, revised (XLSX, 53KB)
- 2020: establishment size by number of employees, revised (XLSX, 58KB)
- 2019: establishment size by number of employees, revised (XLSX, 57KB)
Find additional reports in the report library.
Data source
We use first quarter data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) Enhanced Quarterly Unemployment Insurance file to build the establishment size dataset.