Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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    Workforce Population
    183k
    2024
    Average Employee Age
    44.7
    2024
    Average Salary
    $78,947
    2024
    Average Male Salary
    $83,557
    2024
    Average Female Salary
    $65,101
    2024

    About

    The top three occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 43.8 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $82,397. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $38,908.

    The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Jackson County (South Central) PUMA, MO, Baldwin County (North)--Daphne, Fairhope & Spanish Fort Cities PUMA, AL, and Cook County (Central)--Cicero & Berwyn Townships PUMA, IL.

    The workforce of Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2024 was 182,737 people, with 25% woman, and 75% men.

    In 2024, 73.9% of the workforce in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (134,972 people), of which 24.7% were women and 75.3% men.

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    Employment & Salaries

    A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    The workforce in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 182,737 people and is concentrated in California (18,463 workers). The average annual salary was $78,947, being $9,070 more than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

    Monthly Employment

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    0.332%
    Year-over-year growth
    Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

    As of February 2023, there are 30.2k people employed in the Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Whole industry. This represents a 0.332% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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    Employment by Location

    The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were California (18.5k), Texas (17k), and Florida (11.5k).

    This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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    Yearly Wage Ranking

    In 2024, Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $78,947, $9,070 more than the average national salary of $69,878.

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    Wage Distribution

    0.408
    WAGE GINI

    Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.408, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

    The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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    Occupations

    A review of jobs and wages in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 48,388 workers, but the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

    The highest average salary in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

    Occupations Distribution

    The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (48,388 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (20,828 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (8,728 people)

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    Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

    $83,557
    AVERAGE MALE SALARY
    ±$5,785
    $65,101
    AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
    ±$6,285

    On average, Male workers in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.28 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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    Business

    Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group. Based on estimates from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, this section indicates the amount of money spent by a specific industry in other industries.

    The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    The Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

    California and Texas stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    Industrial Flow

    The closest comparable data for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

    Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

    In this flow diagram, all of the industries listed to the left are those places from which the highlighted industry has made purchases. They are the intermediate inputs to the highlighted industry. All those industries listed on the right side are those industries that have made purchases from the highlighted industry. They are the use of outputs of the highlighted industry. The visualizations below offer alternative ways to see and understand this data.

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    Intermediate Inputs

    The closest comparable data for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.
    HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
    1. Professional and business services
    2. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
    3. Transportation and warehousing

    The Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry. This visualization does not include labor and capital costs.

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    Use of Output by Other Industries

    The closest comparable data for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.
    LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
    1. Manufacturing
    2. Construction
    3. Professional and business services

    The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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    Establishments

    States with more establishments in 2022
    1. California
      2,154
    2. Texas
      1,944
    3. Florida
      1,466

    The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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    Diversity

    Demographic information on the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

    Of the total workforce, 25% corresponds to women and 75% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $83,557 and $65,101.

    80.2% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

    Gender and Age

    45,646
    Women
    25%
    137,091
    Men
    75%

    The workforce of Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry in 2024 was 182,737 people, with 25% woman, and 75% men.

    The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry.

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    Races

    In 2024, 73.9% of the workforce in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry was White (134,972 people), of which 24.7% were women and 75.3% men.

    Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races and Black.

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    Educational Levels

    The main educational levels achieved by the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workers in 2024 were high school or equivalent (54,565 people), some college (47,981 people), and bachelors degree (43,935 people).

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