According to the latest numbers from the Small Business Administrations Office of Advocacy, the numbers speak for themselves! Small firms…

• Employ more than half of all private sector employees
  
• Pay 44.5 % of total U.S. private payroll.
  
• Generate 60 to 80 percent of net new jobs annually.
  
• Create more than 50 % of non-farm private gross domestic product
  
• Supplied 22.8 % of the total value of federal prime contracts in 01.
  
• Employ 39 percent of all high tech workers.
  
• Produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than large firms.
  
• Are 53 % home-based and 3 % franchises.
  
• Make up 89 % of all identified exporters
  
• Produced 20 % of the known export value in FY 2001.