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<\/figure>\nAbout six-in-10 Black adults say supporting Black companies is an\u00a0extremely or very effective strategy<\/a>\u00a0for gaining motion in the direction of equality within the U.S., according to a survey from the Pew Research Center.<\/a><\/p>\n Whereas the variety of Black-owned companies within the U.S. has grown prior to now few years, Black enterprise homeowners represented solely 2.4% of all employer-firm homeowners, whereas Black Individuals make up about 12.4% of the nation’s inhabitants. This disproportionate illustration of enterprise homeowners goes the alternative manner for white Individuals, who made up a majority (86%) of employee-firm homeowners, whereas representing about 59% of all folks dwelling within the U.S.<\/p>\n An estimated 161,031 Black or African American-owned companies had been in operation in 2022, with $183.3 billion in annual receipts. The variety of Black-owned companies is up from 2020, when an estimated 140,918 had been in operation.<\/p>\n\n Black-owned companies employed 1.4 million folks, paying about $53.6 billion in annual payroll, in response to information from Census Bureau’s 2022 Annual Business Survey.<\/a><\/p>\n Though a majority of Black-owned companies have small payrolls (about 66% of companies had fewer than 10 workers in 2020, says Pew Analysis Heart), a number of Black-owned corporations generate billion-dollar revenues annually and make use of hundreds of staff.<\/p>\n The next corporations are among the largest Black-owned companies within the U.S.:<\/p>\n