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Table 2: Wyoming Firms in Expansion and Contraction, and Number of Jobs Created and Destroyed by Size, 1998

Size Class	Number of Matched Firms Open in 1998 & 1999	Percent of Total	Number of Firms Increasing Jobs	Percent of Total	Number of Firms Decreasing Jobs	Percent of Total	Firms with the Same Level of Jobs	Percent of Total	Net Change	Percent of Total
0	750	5.3%	281	4.3%	216	3.8%	253	12.2%	65	7.6%
Number of Jobs			485	2.9	48	0.4			437	7.8
1 to 2	4,566	32.0	1,712	26.2	1,489	26.3	1,365	66.0	223	26.2
Number of Jobs			1,446	8.6	815	7.2			631	11.3
3 to 4	2,617	18.4	1,221	18.7	1,115	19.7	281	13.6	106	12.4
Number of Jobs			1,517	9.0	918	8.1			599	10.7
5 to 9	2,943	20.6	1,473	22.6	1,349	23.8	121	5.9	124	14.6
Number of Jobs			2,228	13.2	1,623	14.4			605	10.8
10 to 19	1,753	12.3	961	14.7	759	13.4	33	1.6	202	23.7
Number of Jobs			2,709	16.1	1,693	15.0			1,016	18.1
20 to 49	1,016	7.1	522	8.0	482	8.5	12	0.6	40	4.7
Number of Jobs			2,309	13.7	2,077	18.4			232	4.1
50 to 99	321	2.3	178	2.7	141	2.5	2	0.1	37	4.3
Number of Jobs			1,397	8.3	1,439	12.8			-42	-0.7
100 to 499	260	1.8	150	2.3	110	1.9	0	0.0	40	4.7
Number of Jobs			3,674	21.8	2,499	22.2			1,175	21.0
500 and more	33	0.2	24	0.4	9	0.2	0	0.0	15	1.8
Number of Jobs			1,109	6.6	157	1.4			952	17.0
Total	14,259	100.0	6,522	100.0	5,670	100.0	2,067	100.0	852	100.0
Number of Jobs			16,874	100.0	11,269	100.0			5,605	100.0

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