Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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    Workforce Population
    378k
    2024
    Average Employee Age
    45.4
    2024
    Average Salary
    $84,604
    2024
    Average Male Salary
    $91,338
    2024
    Average Female Salary
    $64,530
    2024

    About

    The top three occupations in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics. On average, full-time employees in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $88,089. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $40,899.

    The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Kane County (West) PUMA, IL, Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission (Central)--Ector County, Odessa City PUMA, TX, and Seminole County (North Central) PUMA, FL.

    The workforce of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2024 was 378,487 people, with 25.1% woman, and 74.9% men.

    In 2024, 77.4% of the workforce in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (293,010 people), of which 23.4% were women and 76.6% men.

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    Employment & Salaries

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

    The workforce in Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 378,487 people and is concentrated in Texas (42,871 workers). The average annual salary was $84,604, being $14,727 more than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

    Monthly Employment

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    Y-Axis
    5.12%
    Year-over-year growth
    Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

    As of February 2023, there are 249k people employed in the Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 5.12% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

    This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

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    Employment by Location

    The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were Texas (42.9k), California (30.3k), and Florida (23.5k).

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

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    Yearly Wage Ranking

    In 2024, Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $84,604, $14,727 more than the average national salary of $69,878.

    The graph shows the position of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

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    Wage Distribution

    0.391
    WAGE GINI

    Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.391, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Machinery, 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 Machinery, 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 75,829 workers, but the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics.

    The highest average salary in Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers goes to Information security analysts.

    Occupations Distribution

    The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Machinery, 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 (75,829 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (45,244 people), and heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics (20,204 people)

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    Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

    $91,338
    AVERAGE MALE SALARY
    ±$3,953
    $64,530
    AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
    ±$4,333

    On average, Male workers in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.42 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Machinery, 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 Machinery, 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

    The Machinery, 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.

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

    Industrial Flow

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

    Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Machinery, 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 Machinery, 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 Machinery, 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 Machinery, 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Machinery, 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. Texas
      6,252
    2. California
      5,504
    3. Florida
      3,771

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

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    Diversity

    Demographic information on the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

    Of the total workforce, 25.1% corresponds to women and 74.9% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $91,338 and $64,530.

    78% of workers have a high school or equivalent, bachelors degree or some college.

    Gender and Age

    95,069
    Women
    25.1%
    283,418
    Men
    74.9%

    The workforce of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry in 2024 was 378,487 people, with 25.1% woman, and 74.9% men.

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

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    Races

    In 2024, 77.4% of the workforce in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry was White (293,010 people), of which 23.4% were women and 76.6% men.

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

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    Educational Levels

    The main educational levels achieved by the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workers in 2024 were high school or equivalent (109,338 people), bachelors degree (95,959 people), and some college (90,016 people).

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