Highlights of the full report include:
- Clubs employ 363,000 employees, and club payrolls equal $9.5 billion.
- Clubs serve between 1.8 and 2.1 million members.
- Clubs hosted an estimated 17,000 charitable golf tournaments in 2013, raising an estimated $150 million for those charities.
- The total income for clubs in 2013 was $20 billion.
- Clubs spend $2.8 billion on goods and an additional $2.2 billion on services in their local communities.
- Clubs as a whole pay $2.5 billion in total taxes, $1.7 billion of which are local and state taxes.
The Club Managers Association of America (www.cmaa.org) is the largest professional association for managers of membership clubs, with 6,500 members throughout the United States and around the globe. Manager members operate more than 2,600 country, golf, athletic, city, faculty, military, town and yacht clubs. The objectives of the association are to promote relationships between club-management professionals and similar professions; encourage the education and advancement of members; and provide the resources needed for club managers to operate efficiently and successfully.
For more information on the 2014 CMAA Economic Impact Report, visit www.cmaa.org/surveys.aspx.