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There are approximately 21.3 million sole proprietors in the United States.
(Source: Internal Revenue Service Statistics, 2005)
The self-employed produce more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars in annual economic
activity.
U.S. non-farm sole proprietors reported revenues of $830 billion in 2003.
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau Report on Nonemployer Statistics 2003)
The self-employed are increasingly women and minorities. There will be about 4.7 million selfemployed
women by 2005. This is an increase of 77 percent since 1983, compared to an expected
increase of 6 percent in the number of self-employed men. In 1996, about 676,000 African-Americans
were self-employed, a 37 percent increase from 1988. Hispanic self-employed increased 30 percent
during the same period, to 663,000.
(Source: Center for Women's Business Research study Women-Owned Businesses in 2002 and the Census Bureau)
In 2005, 16.7 million self-employed individuals (sole proprietors) paid self-employment tax.
(Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income)
Of those 16.7 million paying self-employment taxes in 2003, 3.9 million paid self-employment tax on
their health insurance premiums.
(Source: Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income)
Approximately 47 million people did not have health coverage in 2004, up 2 million since 2005.
Sixty percent (28.2 million) of the uninsured are from families in which the head of household is selfemployed
or working for a small business.
(Source: U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Labor)
More than half of micro-business owners say they are unable to afford health insurance for
themselves or their employees. Seventy-eight percent of these business owners cited cost/affordability
as the main reason.
(Source: National Association for the Self-Employed, Health Coverage and the Micro-business: A National
Perspective, September 2005 Study)
Eighty-four percent of self-employed business owners say they would be very or somewhat likely to
purchase health insurances for themselves if they were able to deduct their health insurance
premiums as a business expense.
(Source: National Association for the Self-Employed, Affordability in Health Care: Trends in American Micro-
Business, June 2002 Study)
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