There are approximately 22.8 million sole proprietors in the United States.
(Source: Internal Revenue Service Statistics, 2007)
The self-employed produce close to a trillion dollars in annual economic activity.
The self‐employed added $992 billion to the U.S. economy in 2007, up from $970 billion in 2006, which is a 2.2 percent increase.
(Source: U.S. Census Statistics on Nonemployers, 2008)
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