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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Ada
9,514,502
Adams
16,006
Bannock
855,594
Bear Lake
28,658
Benewah
86,056
Bingham
377,684
Blaine
468,080
Boise
17,426
Bonner
424,749
Bonneville
2,199,388
Boundary
86,289
Butte
11,120
Camas
5,036
Canyon
1,796,257
Caribou
195,652
Cassia
269,872
Clark
2,245
Clearwater
70,937
Custer
26,926
Elmore
124,158
Franklin
72,865
Fremont
59,274
Gem
66,710
Gooding
113,713
Idaho
123,068
Jefferson
134,896
Jerome
249,620
Kootenai
2,101,544
Latah
269,044
Lemhi
56,258
Lewis
23,201
Lincoln
22,971
Madison
429,160
Minidoka
205,138
Nez Perce
712,777
Oneida
21,463
Owyhee
53,244
Payette
190,986
Power
85,328
Shoshone
148,239
Teton
100,064
Twin Falls
1,023,907
Valley
116,038
Washington
61,439
Value for Idaho (Thousands of USD): 23,564,597
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.
