US / The nonprofit sector employs nearly 18 times more workers than the nation’s utilities industry

A MAJOR ECONOMIC FORCE

The data reported here confirm the enormous scale of the nonprofit workforce. U.S. nonprofit establishments employed nearly 10.7 million paid workers in 2010. This accounts for 10.1 percent of our nation’s total private employment and makes the U.S. nonprofit workforce the third largest among U.S. industries, behind only retail trade and manufacturing.

More specifically, the U.S. nonprofit sector employs:

• →  Nearly 18 times more workers than the nation’s utilities industry.
• →  Fifteen times more workers than the nation’s mining industry.
• →  Nearly 10 times more workers than the nation’s agriculture industry.
• →  About five and a half times more workers than the nation’s real estate industry.
• →  Nearly three times more workers than the nation’s transportation industry.
• →  About twice as many workers as the nation’s wholesale trade, finance and insurance, and construction industries.

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 via Holding the Fort: Nonprofit Employment During a Decade of Turmoil