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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Adams
27,629
Barnes
122,124
Benson
30,915
Billings
24,954
Bottineau
70,565
Bowman
52,344
Burke
14,335
Burleigh
2,045,073
Cass
5,022,576
Cavalier
51,769
Dickey
52,936
Divide
21,842
Dunn
149,191
Eddy
17,243
Emmons
25,338
Foster
61,189
Golden Valley
14,866
Grand Forks
1,344,406
Grant
12,725
Griggs
19,854
Hettinger
20,459
Kidder
19,601
LaMoure
40,001
Logan
13,089
McHenry
34,651
McIntosh
27,645
McKenzie
434,350
McLean
157,495
Mercer
273,773
Morton
490,981
Mountrail
230,375
Nelson
25,072
Oliver
42,935
Pembina
98,380
Pierce
57,565
Ramsey
169,848
Ransom
57,500
Renville
18,983
Richland
235,724
Rolette
79,737
Sargent
83,906
Sheridan
3,943
Sioux
15,747
Slope
3,099
Stark
785,574
Steele
22,998
Stutsman
375,656
Towner
17,863
Traill
106,743
Walsh
124,911
Ward
1,217,475
Wells
46,178
Williams
1,364,722
Value for North Dakota (Thousands of USD): 16,337,205
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.
