| State | Year | Person/Firm/Comments |
| Alaska | ca. 1973–1974 | The Arctic Company surveyed the Alaska Pipeline in the early 1970s. |
| Arizona | 1974 | In October, Lyle Stone founds Archaeological Research Services (ARS) |
| Arizona | 1977 | Rick Effland, Shirley Powell, and Margerie Green establish Archaeological Consulting Services, Ltd. (in Tempe). |
| Arizona | 1981 | In October, David Phillips establishes a branch office in Tucson for New World Research (then based in Pollock, La.). A few weeks later, William Doelle and Linda Mayro establish Desert Archaeology. |
| California | 1962 | Roger Desautels establishes Scientific Resource Surveys (SRS) in Costa Mesa (?). First big job is survey at Amchitka Island nuclear test site. |
| California | 1965 | Roberta Greenwood conducts her first fully funded salvage project,completing a transition from volunteer-based efforts. |
| Delaware | 1977 | MAAR Associates, Inc. founded |
| Georgia | 1976 | Pat Garrow establishes a CRM program at Soil Systems, Inc. (SSI). |
| Georgia | late 1970s | Dean Wood establishes CRM program at Southeastern Wildlife Services in Athens; program becomes Southeastern Archaeological Services. |
| Hawaii | 1971 | Francis Ching establishes Archaeological Research Center Hawaii (ARCH) to do contract archaeology. |
| Idaho | 1977 | Loralea Hudson, George Gauzza, Jr., and Gary Ayers incorporate as Cultural Resource Consultants, Inc. |
| Iowa | ca. 1971 | Mike Weichman (sp?) may have been the first to incorporate as a private CRM firm, but soon moved away. |
| Iowa | 1973 | Environmental Research Center established in Iowa City. |
| Iowa | "early 1970s" | David Stanley establishes Bear Creek Archaeology, an ongoing CRM firm. |
| Kentucky | 1974 | Ohio Valley Archaeological Research Services Associates (OVARA) does the first private-sector CRM in the state. Ca. 1977, OVARA became Archaeological Services of Kentucky (ASK). |
| Louisiana | late 1970s | Prentice Thomas and Jan Campbell establish New World Research in New Orleans, later moving the firm to Pollock in central Louisiana. |
| Maryland | ca. 1967 | Glenn Little founds Contract Archaeology, Inc. |
| Michigan | ca. 1973 | Earl Prahl of Commonwealth Associates, Inc. (for-profit A&E firm) hires archaeologists for electric utilities. |
| New Jersey | 1960s | Ed Rutch founds Historic Conservation and Interpretation, Inc. |
| New Jersey | 1981 | John Hotopp founds cultural resource program at Louis Berger and Associates, an engineering company. |
| North Carolina | 1971 | Contract Archaeology, Inc. excavates the North Carolina Arsenal site for the N.C. Dept. of Transportation. |
| Oklahoma | 1973 | Annetta Cheek conducts a survey for the Tulsa District, COE. In the same year, she and her husband Charles then establish Archaeological Research Associates, Inc. as a non-profit firm. |
| Pennsyl- vania | 1972 | National Heritage Corporation of West Chester (founded in 1968) hires its first archaeologist, Bill Macdonald. The company's second archaeologist was Alex H. Townsend (1975); the third was Dan Roberts (1976). |
| South Carolina | ca. 1974- 1976 | Leslie Drucker and Ron Anthony establish Carolina Archaeological Services (CAS). |
| Utah | 1976 | Richard Hauck founds Archaeological Environmental Research Corporation (AERC) in Bountiful. About the same time or slightly after, Clay Cook, Diana Anderson, and one or two others found Utah Archaeological Research Corporation (UTARC). |
| Utah | 1977 | Lloyd Pearson founds K. K. Pelli in Moab. |