Kenai Peninsula Borough County Business Patterns

County Business Patterns are published annually by the U.S. Census Bureau and provide employment statistics regarding the number of employees on March 12 of the year reported, the total payroll for first quarter of that year, and the annual payroll total.  It also presents data about the number and size of those establishments.

"An establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or services are provided, and is not necessarily identical with a company or enterprise.  If two or more activities are carried out at a single location, the activities are generally grouped together under the main activity."

Payroll data includes salaries, wages, reported tips, commissions, bonuses, vacation allowances, sick-leave pay, employee contributions to qualified pension plans, and the value of taxable fringe benefits.  It is reported before deductions for Social Security, income tax, insurance, union dues and so forth.

Employment-size classes are indicated as follows: A - 0 to 19 employees; B - 20 to 99; C - 100 to 249; E - 250 to 499; F - 500 to 999; G - 1,000 to 2,499 employees.

Data is presented for boroughs and for zip code regions. Zip code regions extend beyond the boundaries of incorporated cities associated with those codes.

Due to coding changes in recent years, the writer has used the most recent category headings for all years reported here.  Data was included in the category that most nearly matched the outdated category heading.

Blank cells indicate that information for that sector was not reported for that year in the County Business Patterns statistics.