Change in small business employment due to COVID-19 U.S. 2021-2022

Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 22, 2024
During an online survey, 10.1 percent of surveyed small businesses in the United States said they had a decrease in their number of paid employees due to the COVID-19 pandemic during the week ending April 17, 2022. Another 8.2 percent of respondents said that they had increased the number of employees during the same week.

Change in small businesses employment due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States from August 2021 to April 2022

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Release date

April 2022

Region

United States

Survey time period

August 15, 2021 to April 17, 2022

Number of respondents

885,000 businesses

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question: "In the last week, did this business have a change in the number of paid employees?"

The Small Business Pulse Survey is a voluntary survey that requests information of single-location employer businesses with between 1-499 employees and receipts of $1,000 or more in the 50 states, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Values may not equal 100 due to rounding.

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