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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Arkansas
329,098
Ashley
247,815
Baxter
475,466
Benton
6,750,929
Boone
458,817
Bradley
80,862
Calhoun
15,701
Carroll
312,320
Chicot
62,557
Clark
224,149
Clay
73,413
Cleburne
173,678
Cleveland
15,624
Columbia
269,355
Conway
170,203
Craighead
1,627,832
Crawford
573,039
Crittenden
441,193
Cross
116,780
Dallas
70,177
Desha
110,417
Drew
165,172
Faulkner
1,386,854
Franklin
128,275
Fulton
39,271
Garland
1,150,539
Grant
107,567
Greene
534,708
Hempstead
200,617
Hot Spring
213,903
Howard
195,416
Independence
520,458
Izard
64,869
Jackson
128,461
Jefferson
728,141
Johnson
221,660
Lafayette
23,928
Lawrence
91,654
Lee
28,544
Lincoln
51,638
Little River
137,268
Logan
130,798
Lonoke
386,948
Madison
79,962
Marion
82,828
Miller
399,401
Mississippi
689,512
Monroe
51,411
Montgomery
25,389
Nevada
72,398
Newton
13,861
Ouachita
307,237
Perry
21,944
Phillips
122,067
Pike
57,921
Poinsett
113,456
Polk
147,795
Pope
880,667
Prairie
27,779
Pulaski
10,009,600
Randolph
101,914
Saline
681,732
Scott
59,150
Searcy
22,660
Sebastian
2,557,454
Sevier
126,704
Sharp
68,278
St. Francis
165,661
Stone
52,352
Union
767,320
Van Buren
123,632
Washington
3,649,776
White
743,455
Woodruff
39,155
Yell
166,090
Value for Arkansas (Thousands of USD): 42,305,514
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns. Updated annually. County Business Patterns (CBP) Includes U.S., States, and Counties; includes Puerto Rico and Municipios (county-equivalents).
An establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or where services or industrial operations are performed. It is not necessarily identical with a company or enterprise, which may consist of one establishment or more. When two or more activities are conducted at a single location under a single ownership, all activities are generally grouped together as a single establishment and classified on the basis of its major activity. Establishments with paid employees include all locations with paid employees any time during the year. (A separate data item, Nonemployer establishments, provides the number of establishments without paid employees, (mostly self-employed individuals.) Establishment counts represent the number of locations with paid employees any time during the year. This series excludes government establishments except for wholesale liquor establishments (NAICS 4248), retail liquor stores (NAICS 44531), Book publishers (NAICS 511130), Federally-chartered savings institutions (NAICS 522120), Federally-chartered credit unions (NAICS 522130), and hospitals (NAICS 622).
Paid employment (Mid-march employment) consists of full- and part-time employees, including salaried officers and executives of corporations, who are on the payroll in the pay period including March 12. Included are employees on paid sick leave, holidays, and vacations; not included are proprietors and partners of unincorporated businesses.
Payroll includes all forms of compensation, such as salaries, wages, commissions, dismissal pay, bonuses, vacation allowances, sick-leave pay, and employee contributions to qualified pension plans paid during the year to all employees. For corporations, payroll includes amounts paid to officers and executives; for unincorporated businesses, it does not include profit or other compensation of proprietors or partners. Payroll is reported before deductions for social security, income tax, insurance, union dues, etc. This definition of payroll is the same as that used by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on Form 941 as taxable Medicare Wages and Tips (even if not subject to income or FICA tax). First-quarter payroll consists of payroll during the January-to-March quarter.
Scope and Methodology:
Figures for employer establishments with paid employees for the U.S. Puerto Rico and the Island Areas are published in County Business Patterns (CBP), an annual statistical series. Basic data items are extracted from the Business Register, a file of all known single and multiestablishment companies maintained and updated by the Bureau of the Census from various Census Bureau programs, such as the 5-year Economic Census, the annual Company Organization Survey, the Annual Survey of Manufactures, and Current Business Surveys, as well as from administrative records of the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Social Security Administration.
Employers without a fixed location within a state (or of unknown county location) are included under a "Statewide" classification at the end of the county tables. This incomplete detail causes only a slight understatement of county employment.
