The form each 7(a) co-borrower signs and gives the lender. It reports employees and jobs and the purpose of the loan, and the lender keeps the signed form and enters its data into SBA's system.
A separate Form 1919 is completed for each co-borrower and signed by the business’s authorized representative. The purpose-of-loan amounts across all the forms should add up to the total loan request. Only the information on the form, not the form itself, goes into SBA’s loan system. The lender keeps the signed form in its file. The form also carries the borrower’s agreement to buy American-made equipment and products where practicable.
It reports the number of existing employees and the jobs to be created or retained. Employees are counted under 13 CFR 121.106: everyone employed full-time, part-time or on another basis, with no conversion to full-time equivalents, and contractors paid on a 1099 are not counted. Jobs created means full-time or equivalent employees the business expects to hire because of the loan. Jobs retained means full-time or equivalent employees on the payroll who would be lost without it.
Example: a business with 12 full-time and 6 part-time employees reports 18 existing employees.
How it shows up in the data here
Not public. SBA's loan file has JobsSupported, the jobs created plus jobs retained as the lender reported them, which SBA says it does not review, audit or validate. The signed form, with the owners' details, is in no public file and is not on this site.
Go further
- Package checklist: SBA 7(a) loan: Where the form sits in the order lenders ask.
- SBA 7(a) loan package checklist: A 7(a) package is the bank's usual file plus SBA's own list. Know which items SBA requires and you can have them ready before the first call.
Related terms
- SBA Form 413 (Personal Financial Statement): SBA's personal financial statement. Each 20 percent owner and each guarantor except a supplemental guarantor gives one, or the lender's own equivalent, signed and dated within 90 days.
- IRS tax transcript (Form 4506-C and 8821): The IRS record of a filed return that an SBA lender orders itself, with Form 4506-C through IVES or Form 8821, to check the numbers it was given.
- SBA 7(a) loan: SBA's main business loan program. A lender makes the loan and SBA guarantees part of it: up to 85 percent of $150,000 or less and 75 percent of more, on loans up to $5,000,000.
- SOP 50 10 (SBA lender manual): SBA's rulebook for 7(a) and 504 loans, in three parts: core requirements, 7(a) requirements and 504 requirements. Version 8.1 took effect on October 1, 2026.
Sources
Plain definitions for orientation, not legal, tax or credit advice. A lender's own policy decides what it will do.