THE NATIONAL VETERAN SUPPLIER DIVERSITY COUNCIL
We work tirelessly to connect companies committed to diversity with our network of Veteran small-businesses. Diversity is the strength of companies, and we believe Veterans make ideal suppliers.
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In December 2015 and February 2016, the U.S. Census Bureau released data from its Survey of Business Owners (SBO):
• 2.45 million businesses were majority-owned by veterans.
• Of this total, 442,485 were employers, and 2.08 million were non-employers.
• Veteran-owned firms had receipts of $1.22 trillion, employed 5.03 million people, and had annual payroll of $210 billion.
• Veteran-owned firms represented 9.1 percent of all U.S. firms.
• 10.3 percent of all owners of SBO-respondent firms were veterans.
• 7.3 percent of all respondent veteran owners had service-connected disabilities.
