Business economic scale distribution

BDS publishes firm and establishment employment-size classes with employment, firm, and establishment counts by supported geography, NAICS, and year, directly supporting employment-based scale composition. It supplies neither payroll nor receipts/revenue, so the edge is limited to the documented employment component.

The non-contributory licensed Company Dataset supplies employee_count with documented profile-derived limitations, self-reported size, industry codes, and modeled inferred_revenue bands. Full-file delivery supports distributions by those dimensions and geography; it does not supply payroll and modeled revenue must remain identified as modeled.

QCEW size-class rows provide establishment counts, covered jobs, exact nominal wage/pay measures, and UI contributions by documented employment-size band, geography, industry, ownership, and period. This supports establishment distributions by employment size, not firm, revenue, receipts, real-value, or within-band microdata distributions.

The non-contributory standing U.S. API/feed supplies NAICS-, geography-, size-class-, and year-pinned Sales per Employee, defined as revenue divided by FTE employees. It supplies useful normalized scale context but not business counts, payroll, or a complete revenue distribution.

Annual operating-location records and buyer-defined filtered counts provide reported or estimated location, parent, and corporate employee measures plus model-type indicators, alongside year-specific geography and industry. This directly supports the employment component of economic-scale distributions. Sales fields are not relied on for a currency-comparable distribution because their public currency, period, and model-version basis is unstated; payroll and receipts are not claimed.