Building material & supplies dealers

Industry Group

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Workforce

1.04M

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

41.9

Average Salary

$39,304

Average Male Salary

$42,775

Average Female Salary

$41,938

About

The top three occupations in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Customer service representatives, Cashiers, and Stockers and order fillers. On average, full-time employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group work 43 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $47,853. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $14,490.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group are Eau Claire & Chippewa (South) Counties PUMA, WI, Mooresville Town & Statesville City PUMA, NC, and Surry, Wilkes & Alleghany Counties PUMA, NC. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Building material & supplies dealers.

Retail Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Glaziers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Building material & supplies dealers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

9.62%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 27.4M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 9.62% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Trade, Transportation, and Utilities over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations

Occupations by Share

1.04M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 24.9k

1.96%

1 Year Growth

± 3.35%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 1.96%, , from 1.02M people in 2019 to 1.04M people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Building material & supplies dealers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Building material & supplies dealers at 26.2%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 13.8% and Customer service representatives with 8.27%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Customer service representatives, Cashiers, and Stockers and order fillers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Building material & supplies dealers employs an unusually high number of Glaziers, Retail salespersons, and Merchandise displayers and window trimmers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Building material & supplies dealers, by average wage, are Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, Sales engineers, and Chief executives & legislators.

Wages

Average Salary

$39,304

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,067

On average, employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group make $39,304 per year. This number makes Building material & supplies dealers the 216 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.438

WAGE GINI

Building material & supplies dealers has a wage GINI of 0.438, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Building material & supplies dealers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $42,775 and $41,938. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

324k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±14k

713k

MALE WORKFORCE

±20.7k

68.8% of workers in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$42,775

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,409

$41,938

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,369

On average, Male workers in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

On average, Asian employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group earn 1.14 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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Building material & supplies dealers 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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group is Construction.

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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Building material & supplies dealers 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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