SBA Table of Small Business Size Standards

TL;DR — The legal definition of ‘small business’, industry by industry, matched to NAICS codes.

⬇ Download the archived copy — kept here so the document survives its source going dark. US federal government work (17 USC §105).

Effective 19 August 2019.

The table that determines, for every NAICS industry code, the revenue or employee threshold below which a firm is legally a small business — and therefore eligible for set-aside contracts, SBA lending and a range of regulatory relief.

The thresholds are startling in places, which is the reason to look: ‘small’ can mean 1,500 employees or $40 million in receipts depending on the industry. A single spreadsheet with very large economic consequences, and a good corrective to casual use of the phrase.

Where this came from

• Brendan Sheehan’s public are.na channel

49 pages. A copy is archived locally against link rot; the header links the original source.