The Nonprofit sector –hospitals, private colleges and universities, nursing and personal care facilities, residential care facilities, individual and family social services providers, and many other industries - is a major economic force in Missouri.
The nonprofit sector in Missouri is quite large, it accounts for 8.6 percent of all employment and 7.9 percent of all payroll dollars.
Employment is not concentrated in any one part of the state, but is distributed throughout with some pockets of high concentration.
More than half of the state’s nonprofit employment is found in healthcare. Another 28 percent is found in education and social services.
Wages in the nonprofit sector are similar to or higher than those of the for-profit sector in industries where there is a large concentration of employment across both sectors.
