Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
114k
2023
Average Employee Age
43.8
2023
Average Salary
$76,247
2023
Average Male Salary
$93,813
2023
Average Female Salary
$61,668
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand. On average, full-time employees in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 43 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $83,582. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $30,212.

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2023 was 113,533 people, with 54.6% woman, and 45.4% men.

In 2023, 52.5% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (59,636 people), of which 52% were women and 48% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 113,533 people and is concentrated in California (29,545 workers). The average annual salary was $76,247, being $8,520 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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−3.95%
Year-over-year decline
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 58.4k people employed in the Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a −3.95% decrease in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2023 were California (29.5k), New York (14.6k), and New Jersey (9.56k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $76,247, $8,520 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.494
WAGE GINI

Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.494, which is more than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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 Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 18,152 workers, but the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand.

The highest average salary in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (18,152 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (14,052 people), and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (6,362 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$93,813
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$12,404
$61,668
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$7,146

On average, Male workers in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.52 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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 Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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 New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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Intermediate Inputs

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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 Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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
    4,751
  2. New York
    2,545
  3. Florida
    917

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 54.6% corresponds to women and 45.4% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $93,813 and $61,668.

72.9% of workers have a bachelors degree, high school or equivalent or some college.

Gender and Age

62,041
Women
54.6%
51,492
Men
45.4%

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry in 2023 was 113,533 people, with 54.6% woman, and 45.4% men.

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Races

In 2023, 52.5% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry was White (59,636 people), of which 52% were women and 48% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers workers in 2023 were bachelors degree (37,807 people), high school or equivalent (25,588 people), and some college (19,397 people).

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