Table 1: Number of New Firms, Associated Initial Jobs and Wages, and New Business Formation Rate in Wyoming by Region and County, 1998 and 1999
| Start up in 1998 | Start up in 1999 | |||||||||
| Region and County | New Firms | Percent | Initial Jobs* | Total Wages (in millions) | New Business Formation Rate** | New Firms | Percent | Initial Jobs | Total Wages (in millions) | New Business Formation Rate |
| Northwest: | 323 | 16.6% | 901 | $8.4 | 8.7% | 321 | 17.1% | 1,033 | $15.0 | 8.7% |
| Big Horn | 34 | 112 | 1.2 | 8.9% | 26 | 80 | 0.7 | 6.9% | ||
| Fremont | 127 | 375 | 2.7 | 9.1% | 122 | 435 | 9.3 | 8.7% | ||
| Hot Springs | 27 | 77 | 0.6 | 11.3% | 20 | 77 | 0.8 | 8.6% | ||
| Park | 106 | 285 | 3.4 | 8.3% | 120 | 340 | 3.2 | 9.4% | ||
| Washakie | 29 | 52 | 0.6 | 6.6% | 33 | 101 | 1.0 | 7.7% | ||
| Northeast: | 292 | 15.0% | 903 | 9.5 | 9.1% | 302 | 16.1% | 1,318 | 14.4 | 9.4% |
| Campbell | 122 | 504 | 6.0 | 9.8% | 136 | 721 | 9.6 | 10.9% | ||
| Crook | 18 | 41 | 0.2 | 7.9% | 17 | 57 | 0.5 | 7.4% | ||
| Johnson | 39 | 79 | 0.6 | 10.7% | 27 | 124 | 0.7 | 7.5% | ||
| Sheridan | 99 | 236 | 2.2 | 8.7% | 104 | 364 | 3.3 | 9.1% | ||
| Weston | 14 | 43 | 0.5 | 5.7% | 18 | 52 | 0.4 | 7.2% | ||
| Southwest: | 509 | 26.1% | 1,852 | 17.9 | 11.0% | 415 | 22.1% | 1,852 | 34.3 | 9.0% |
| Lincoln | 76 | 292 | 2.0 | 13.9% | 45 | 362 | 3.9 | 8.3% | ||
| Sublette | 48 | 156 | 1.2 | 13.2% | 28 | 55 | 0.9 | 7.4% | ||
| Sweetwater | 102 | 548 | 5.7 | 7.8% | 92 | 652 | 16.7 | 7.2% | ||
| Teton | 221 | 701 | 7.8 | 13.0% | 197 | 532 | 10.4 | 11.3% | ||
| Uinta | 62 | 155 | 1.2 | 8.9% | 53 | 251 | 2.3 | 7.8% | ||
| Southeast: | 428 | 22.0% | 1,789 | 16.2 | 9.5% | 353 | 18.8% | 1,529 | 16.5 | 7.9% |
| Albany | 107 | 568 | 4.9 | 10.2% | 82 | 310 | 2.5 | 8.0% | ||
| Goshen | 36 | 129 | 0.7 | 8.3% | 27 | 92 | 0.5 | 6.3% | ||
| Laramie | 246 | 965 | 9.9 | 9.8% | 217 | 994 | 11.8 | 8.6% | ||
| Niobrara | 7 | 27 | 0.2 | 5.2% | 3 | 2 | 0.0 | 2.3% | ||
| Platte | 32 | 100 | 0.6 | 8.5% | 24 | 131 | 1.5 | 6.6% | ||
| Central: | 302 | 15.5% | 1,456 | 18.8 | 7.8% | 351 | 18.7% | 1,366 | 19.4 | 9.1% |
| Carbon | 56 | 244 | 2.3 | 8.6% | 55 | 234 | 2.8 | 8.5% | ||
| Converse | 40 | 155 | 1.3 | 8.4% | 34 | 170 | 2.4 | 7.2% | ||
| Natrona | 206 | 1,057 | 15.2 | 7.5% | 262 | 962 | 14.2 | 9.5% | ||
| Unclassified*** | 94 | 4.8% | 1,055 | 26.0 | 13.7% | 136 | 7.2% | 1,243 | 13.4 | 19.0% |
| Statewide | 1,948 | 100% | 7,956 | 96.9 | 9.4% | 1,878 | 100% | 8,341 | 113.0 | 9.1% |
* Initial jobs represent the starting level employment, which is the highest average quarterly employment during the first two starting quarters.
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** New business formation rate is the percentage of new firms compared with the total number of firms in a specific location.
*** Unclassified includes all firms missing county information or those having more than one county location (multi-county firms).
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