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These firms, which provide gainful employment for 518 men and women in jobs covered by social security, constitute the backbone of business in the county.
Not included in the total are self-employed people, farm help, domestic workers and those in Federal, state or local government employ.
Salaries and wages for workers in Rappahannock County who are subject to social security have also been on the rise. The local payroll has reached an annual figure of $2,028,000.
New businesses continue to spring into being in the local area each year as venturesome persons, anxious to be on their own, strike out for themselves.
Some have done so by obtaining franchises from companies which will, for a price, set them up in business to market the firms’ goods o* services.
Their success is far from guaranteed. The mortality among
96.4%