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The US charitable non-profit sector is now the third largest employer among the 18 ‘industries’ recorded by official US statistics. Reflecting this, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has begun issuing a regular statistical series on non-profit employment for the first time, using a technique perfected by the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies for identifying non-profit employers in the BLS quarterly census of all places of employment in the US.

Sources
Lester M Salamon (forthcoming, 2015) The Resilient Sector: The future of nonprofit America, 2nd edition Washington DC, Brookings Institution Press; paid employment from US Bureau of Labor Statistics data; volunteer employment from September 2012 supplement to the US Census Current Population Survey.