Business Establishments


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1998 Business Establishments 1/, Employees and Annual Payroll in New Mexico, by County  
Annual Number of Establishments
Annual Payroll by Employment-size Class
Total No. No. of Payroll per 100 or
County Estab. Emp. 2/ ($000) Emp.   1-19 20-49 50-99 More
NEW MEXICO 42,608 540,186 $13,133,707 $24,313 37,254 3,544 1,125 685
Bernalillo 15,585 249,348 6,630,937 26,593 13,153 1,525 542 365
Catron 59 238 3,086 12,966 58 1 0 0
Chaves 1,525 16,056 322,600 20,092 1,368 107 35 15
Cibola 363 4,654 95,919 20,610 315 29 13 6
Colfax 500 3,963 68,729 17,343 466 23 8 3
Curry 1,072 10,635 193,603 18,204 956 82 25 9
De Baca 62 339 5,436 16,035 59 3 0 0
Dona Ana 3,183 34,739 673,554 19,389 2,800 262 84 37
Eddy 1,283 15,947 384,558 24,115 1,120 112 29 22
Grant 694 7,972 200,922 25,203 628 46 7 13
Guadalupe 113 1,077 15,355 14,257 98 13 1 1
Harding 20 54 1,184 21,926 20 0 0 0
Hidalgo 108 1,451 34,651 23,881 96 11 0 1
Lea 1,487 16,044 366,867 22,866 1,300 139 36 12
Lincoln 708 4,406 76,416 17,344 663 34 9 2
Los Alamos 446 5,830 173,374 29,738 395 32 13 6
Luna 414 3,408 56,643 16,621 382 25 3 4
McKinley 1,037 13,792 288,761 20,937 881 94 46 16
Mora 61 412 6,561 15,925 55 5 0 1
Otero 1,035 11,229 202,811 18,061 922 79 19 15
Quay 295 2,097 32,163 15,338 268 21 6 0
Rio Arriba 637 6,248 119,222 19,082 574 39 14 10
Roosevelt 342 2,923 47,313 16,186 308 25 5 4
Sandoval 1,172 18,750 578,862 30,873 1,047 77 30 18
San Juan 2,416 31,938 868,083 27,180 2,090 226 58 42
San Miguel 536 5,063 100,333 19,817 494 29 10 3
Santa Fe 4,517 44,430 1,059,729 23,852 4,052 334 82 49
Sierra 313 1,931 28,584 14,803 294 16 2 1
Socorro 271 2,410 40,930 16,983 241 25 3 2
Taos 1,109 8,242 137,914 16,733 1,030 54 19 6
Torrance 235 1,842 29,825 16,192 219 10 4 2
Union 119 732 11,690 15,970 110 9 0 0
Valencia 833 8,267 150,154 18,163 758 49 18 8
Statewide 3/ 58 3,719 $126,938 $34,132 34 8 4 12
1/   These counts of businesses include only those establishments that had employees.  Businesses are defined as
      establishments rather than firms.  An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted
      or where services or industrial operations are performed.  In general, the following types of establishments are
      excluded: government (except for government operated hospitals), railroads, those businesses consisting only
      of self-employed persons and agricultural production.  Additionally, domestic servants are excluded.
2/   Number of employees for week including March 12.
3/   Establishments without a fixed location in the state or of unknown county location
     are included under the "Statewide" classification.
Table Prepared by:  Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico.
Source:  U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns, New Mexico, 1998.  


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Last Revised: 8/17/07