SBDC Impact

The most recent independent analysis found that the Pennsylvania SBDCs had the following impact:

New Businesses Opened: 2,147 Cost per New Business Created: $4,733 Jobs Created: 7,033 Cost per New Job Created: $1,445 Client Firms’ New Sales: $613,300,620 Total Program Benefit to Cost Ratio: $5.66/$1 (Incremental taxes generated/total program funding) Federal Income Tax Generated: $22,043,405 State Sales & Income Taxes Generated: $35,458,209

This analysis does not capture other benefits of the SBDC program including:

• Continuing benefits to clients and tax revenues generated after the year studied.
• Other value-added programs the SBDCs offer, such as workshops.
• Value of personal assets preserved and business failures prevented because of SBDC assistance.
• Multiplier effects of a healthier small business sector.

While these annual results are impressive, the Pennsylvania SBDCs cumulative impact is even more impressive.

Since 1990 alone, the SBDCs have helped Pennsylvania entrepreneurs:

• Start more than 24,300 new businesses


• Create over 104,800 new jobs


• Obtain over $2.1 billion in start-up and expansion capital


• Expand Sales by $8.7 billion, including over $2.1 billion in government contracts and $1.3 billion in export sales.


• Generate more than $796 million in new tax revenues

Download a PDF of these statistics of the SBDC's impact and the long-term performance of SBDC-assisted start-ups

All impact data and figures are from independent analysis of the SBDC program in Pennsylvania in 2008 by Dr. James Chrisman of Mississippi State University.