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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Beaverhead
80,584
Big Horn
117,859
Blaine
39,755
Broadwater
26,830
Carbon
61,346
Carter
4,799
Cascade
1,165,170
Chouteau
24,699
Custer
136,342
Daniels
24,933
Dawson
107,557
Deer Lodge
123,007
Fallon
51,372
Fergus
120,531
Flathead
1,513,893
Gallatin
1,932,810
Garfield
3,689
Glacier
85,503
Golden Valley
1,514
Granite
19,996
Hill
178,013
Jefferson
66,232
Judith Basin
7,141
Lake
195,814
Lewis and Clark
1,012,535
Liberty
9,570
Lincoln
119,107
Madison
60,719
McCone
13,173
Meagher
8,796
Mineral
21,785
Missoula
1,860,978
Musselshell
41,737
Park
174,029
Petroleum
250
Phillips
23,160
Pondera
37,862
Powder River
9,443
Powell
36,713
Prairie
4,072
Ravalli
303,657
Richland
224,565
Roosevelt
58,300
Rosebud
114,002
Sanders
61,620
Sheridan
26,028
Silver Bow
472,393
Stillwater
177,368
Sweet Grass
68,053
Teton
35,375
Toole
49,221
Treasure
2,581
Valley
81,518
Wheatland
12,316
Wibaux
3,976
Yellowstone
3,062,544
Value for Montana (Thousands of USD): 14,773,193
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.
