Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
798k
2022
Average Employee Age
42.8
2022
Average Salary
$61,957
2022
Average Male Salary
$65,715
2022
Average Female Salary
$51,711
2022

About

The top three occupations in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group are driver/sales workers & truck drivers, sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 45.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $65,736. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22 hours and earn an average annual salary of $24,160.

The workforce of Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2022 was 798,356 people, with 26.8% woman, and 73.2% men.

In 2022, 60.7% of the workforce in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (484,966 people), of which 26.1% were women and 73.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 798,356 people and is concentrated in California (115,841 workers). The average annual salary was $61,957, being $2,726 less than the national average salary, which was $64,683.

Monthly Employment

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1.87%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 359k people employed in the Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 1.87% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2022 were California (116k), Texas (67.8k), and Florida (51.3k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2022, Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $61,957, $2,726 less than the average national salary of $64,683.

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Wage Distribution

0.403
WAGE GINI

Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.403, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Driver/sales workers & truck drivers are the most common position with 125,596 workers, but the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers.

The highest average salary in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2022, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were driver/sales workers & truck drivers (125,596 people), sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (103,581 people), and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (80,014 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$65,715
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$2,020
$51,711
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$3,038

On average, Male workers in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.27 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Grocery & related product 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 Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Grocery & related product 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.

Industrial Flow

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Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Grocery & related product 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

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Transportation and warehousing
  3. Manufacturing

The Grocery & related product 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

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Construction
  3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

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

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 26.8% corresponds to women and 73.2% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $65,715 and $51,711.

74.7% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

214,246
Women
26.8%
584,110
Men
73.2%

The workforce of Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers industry in 2022 was 798,356 people, with 26.8% woman, and 73.2% men.

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Races

In 2022, 60.7% of the workforce in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers industry was White (484,966 people), of which 26.1% were women and 73.9% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Other.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers workers in 2022 were high school or equivalent (275,139 people), some college (178,204 people), and bachelors degree (143,221 people).

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