Veteran-owned businesses generated about 5.3% of employer firm revenue. Learn more in this America Counts story.





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A Profile of the Nation’s Veteran-Owned Businesses

Veterans owned about 5.4% or 304,823 of the nation’s 5,681,118 employer businesses with at least one paid employee in 2021, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2022 Annual Business Survey.

The largest share of veteran-owned employer businesses were in the Professional, Scientific and Technical Services sector.

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A business is considered veteran-owned if a veteran owns at least 51% of the stock or equity in it. There were also 122,970 firms equally owned by veterans and nonveterans.

Veteran-owned businesses generated $922 billion in revenue, about 5.3% of the total $17.4 trillion of all classifiable employer businesses in 2021.

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