Miscellaneous general merchandise stores

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Workforce

651k

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

37.7

Estimated Job Growth

N/A%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$25,592

Average Male Salary

$30,768

Average Female Salary

$21,827

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Input/Output

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About

The top three occupations in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group are Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Stock clerks & order fillers, Retail salespersons, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group work 42.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $36,946. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.2 hours and earn an average annual salary of $11,572.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group are Lafayette Parish (North) PUMA, LA, Columbus (South), Grove Cities & Groveport Village PUMA, OH, and Birmingham City (West) PUMA, AL. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Miscellaneous general merchandise stores.

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Retail Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group. Cashiers are the most common position, but the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Models, demonstrators, & product promoters, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Miscellaneous general merchandise stores goes to Chief executives & legislators.

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Occupations by Share

651k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 19.8k

1.45%

1 Year Growth

± 4.25%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 1.45%, , from 642k people in 2016 to 651k people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Miscellaneous general merchandise stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Cashiers represent the largest share of positions held in Miscellaneous general merchandise stores at 25.2%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 22.7% and Stock clerks & order fillers with 10.8%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Stock clerks & order fillers, Retail salespersons, and Customer service representatives.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Miscellaneous general merchandise stores employs an unusually high number of Models, demonstrators, & product promoters, Photographic process workers & processing machine operators, and Cashiers.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Miscellaneous general merchandise stores, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Pharmacists, and Production, planning, & expediting clerks.

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Wages

Average Salary

$25,592

AVERAGE WAGE

± $885

On average, employees in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group make $25,592 per year. This number makes Miscellaneous general merchandise stores the 250 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 266 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.463

WAGE GINI

Miscellaneous general merchandise stores has a wage GINI of 0.463, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Miscellaneous general merchandise stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $30,768 and $21,827. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

377k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±15.1k

274k

MALE WORKFORCE

±12.8k

57.9% of workers in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$30,768

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,580

$21,827

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$982

On average, Male workers in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group make 1.41 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
American Indian and Alaska Native tribes specified; or American Indian or Alaska Native, not specified and no other races
Asian

On average, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander employees in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group earn 1.4 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group is Construction.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Miscellaneous general merchandise stores is from Retail Trade.

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Miscellaneous general merchandise stores 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

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Projections

Growth projections of the Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Miscellaneous general merchandise stores Industry Group has a lower projected workforce growth at N/A%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (N/A%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).