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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Adams
1,069,687
Allegheny
37,748,915
Armstrong
503,347
Beaver
1,914,611
Bedford
431,765
Berks
7,052,124
Blair
2,012,148
Bradford
781,723
Bucks
11,813,516
Butler
3,901,238
Cambria
1,649,331
Cameron
56,839
Carbon
438,870
Centre
1,811,417
Chester
17,608,592
Clarion
353,884
Clearfield
893,887
Clinton
409,574
Columbia
785,738
Crawford
968,875
Cumberland
5,562,032
Dauphin
7,565,681
Delaware
11,613,490
Elk
576,434
Erie
4,540,549
Fayette
1,188,093
Forest
30,149
Franklin
1,938,005
Fulton
288,455
Greene
563,587
Huntingdon
321,513
Indiana
940,515
Jefferson
532,718
Juniata
192,967
Lackawanna
3,564,678
Lancaster
10,126,134
Lawrence
969,583
Lebanon
1,793,790
Lehigh
9,509,285
Luzerne
5,414,568
Lycoming
1,723,989
McKean
447,393
Mercer
1,595,249
Mifflin
548,329
Monroe
1,764,886
Montgomery
32,280,333
Montour
1,014,073
Northampton
4,926,314
Northumberland
902,784
Perry
170,771
Philadelphia
36,754,200
Pike
259,013
Potter
170,853
Schuylkill
1,540,882
Snyder
484,029
Somerset
675,806
Sullivan
26,934
Susquehanna
223,600
Tioga
364,500
Union
610,076
Venango
527,155
Warren
538,954
Washington
4,664,375
Wayne
447,056
Westmoreland
5,107,120
Wyoming
536,823
York
7,278,533
Value for Pennsylvania (Thousands of USD): 270,592,656
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.
