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Total annual payroll, 2017 ($1,000) - (Thousands of USD)
County
Value
Adams
99,626
Ashland
261,277
Barron
644,324
Bayfield
67,874
Brown
6,991,748
Buffalo
108,528
Burnett
115,336
Calumet
464,469
Chippewa
842,805
Clark
329,106
Columbia
796,026
Crawford
194,240
Dane
15,642,950
Dodge
1,556,884
Door
397,600
Douglas
556,612
Dunn
562,223
Eau Claire
2,707,199
Florence
17,512
Fond du Lac
1,871,548
Forest
48,020
Grant
494,066
Green
569,799
Green Lake
204,814
Iowa
377,603
Iron
38,293
Jackson
282,847
Jefferson
1,210,032
Juneau
246,107
Kenosha
2,368,240
Kewaunee
196,664
La Crosse
2,700,286
Lafayette
128,674
Langlade
244,682
Lincoln
355,985
Manitowoc
1,219,372
Marathon
2,786,024
Marinette
638,637
Marquette
106,623
Menominee
28,993
Milwaukee
23,741,372
Monroe
701,192
Oconto
239,814
Oneida
551,196
Outagamie
4,838,941
Ozaukee
1,845,165
Pepin
68,636
Pierce
235,421
Polk
484,260
Portage
1,315,214
Price
167,777
Racine
3,116,064
Richland
168,725
Rock
2,634,491
Rusk
153,214
Sauk
1,228,474
Sawyer
186,028
Shawano
371,596
Sheboygan
2,462,399
St. Croix
1,250,802
Taylor
306,268
Trempealeau
579,839
Vernon
262,526
Vilas
181,136
Walworth
1,311,487
Washburn
144,329
Washington
2,244,385
Waukesha
13,086,155
Waupaca
573,658
Waushara
144,768
Winnebago
4,364,190
Wood
1,777,228
Value for Wisconsin (Thousands of USD): 121,061,234
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.