Facts About Small Businesses in Ireland During 2008

This report provides a comprehensive picture of the contribution of small enterprises in Ireland. The report contains data on the contribution of small enterprises in industry, service sector and construction as well as statistics on the work, the knowledge economy and workforce. It also includes international comparisons. The report is a small company as an enterprise which employs fewer than 50 persons, is defined. Statistics on the average (50-249 employees) and large (250 or more people) are included for comparison. Highlights of the report are: Industry: Production and employment of medium and large companies * In 2005, four of the five industrial companies dominated (81%) small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. The company employs 50,000 people, a little more than one fifth of total industrial employment. * Larger companies (50 or more persons) employed 181,100 people in 2005 and account for 93% of the total turnover of the industry. * The vast majority of small industrial enterprises owned by Ireland (95%). Almost 42% of large foreign-owned companies. Services: More than 380,000 employees of small businesses in the services sector * In the services sector, most companies (98%) were low. There are 82,100 small businesses employing over 380,000 people in the service sector in 2005. That was more than half of all workers in this sector. * Small businesses, almost half (49%) of total turnover in the services sector, and generated a turnover of around? 81. 6 billion in 2005. * Almost half of small businesses in the services sector are from the family (47%) are achieved. The vast majority of these family businesses employed less than 10 people. Construction: Small businesses employ two thirds of all workers in construction * According to the Quarterly National Household Survey, there were 253,200 employed in construction in the fourth quarter of 2005. Of these, 211,000 indicated that working in small companies (fewer than 50 employees), indicated during 24,500, that work in large companies (50 or more employees). Another 17,600, not the number of employees for their jobs. * Of the 253,200 people working in construction, over 65% with very small holdings under tha worked for ten people. Wages and salaries: 54% of private sector employees in small businesses earning between? 10 -? 20 per hour in 2006, the average hourly wage in small businesses * were? 15. 22 in 2006 compared to? 19. 38 in establishments with 50 or more employees in 2006. * The average salary for employees in a small business was all about? 32,453 in 2006. The average salary in larger enterprises was? 44,794 per year. Knowledge economy: Large companies have shown greater e-government activities * Small enterprises are usually not more information on modern communication technology that large companies. * Almost all companies with 10 or more employees were connected to the internet that two thirds of businesses with fewer than 10 employees are using the Internet. Size of work: almost 56% of employment in small workplaces * In all areas, 56% of jobs in the factories, in which were less than 50 people employed in the second quarter of 2007. A total of 1175800 people worked in small businesses. Of these, 839,300 workers, 216,600 and 107,900 are self-employed are self-employed with employees. These figures include farming and the public sector and the economy. * Of the 316,300 non-Irish nationals in employment in the second quarter of 2007, less than half (47%) worked in small businesses. Comparison of EU value added in small construction firms in Ireland has been three times the EU average in 2005 * Nearly three quarters of production in Spain, the company generated sales of big while the EU average was 60%. * In 2005, Ireland recorded, but the gross value added per employee? 51,600 in the distribution of services. The EU average was? 33,000 per employee. * The gross value added per worker in the construction industry in Ireland was significantly higher than the EU average for all types of employment dimension.