The economic activity of a society consists of activities related to the production and consumption of goods and services. Since earliest times, the primary function of organized society has been economic in nature.
The Pentagon is a large office building, with about 6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m 2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m 2) are used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors.
In February 2010, there were about 138,641,000 employed people in the United States. This is according to the Employment Situation Summary published by the U.S. Department of Labor on March 5, 2010. This number represents 90.3% of the reported civilian labor force. Nearly 92.8% of all employed Americans are wage and salary workers.