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Looking at Small Businesses and Employers in San Diego

Kelly Cunningham, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SYSTEM INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

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Using a definition for small business of having less than 50 employees, 95.6 percent of San Diego businesses (with payroll) are small. These small business employers account for 38 percent of all payroll jobs in San Diego. (Technically this includes public and government entities, so it would be more accurate to call them small employers.)