Car Dealers

Industry Group

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Workforce

1.26M

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

41.7

Average Salary

$55,868

Average Male Salary

$59,932

Average Female Salary

$58,544

About

The top three occupations in the Car Dealers Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Automotive service technicians & mechanics, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cleaners of vehicles & equipment, and Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, & weighers. On average, full-time employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group work 46.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $60,417. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $18,579.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group are Cedar Hill & Duncanville Cities PUMA, TX, Franklin County PUMA, MO, and Wood, Pleasants & Wirt Counties PUMA, WV. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Car Dealers.

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Retail Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Car Dealers Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Car Dealers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Parts salespersons, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Car Dealers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

13.4%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 534k people employed in the Automobile Dealers industry. This represents a 13.4% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Automobile Dealers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations

Occupations by Share

1.26M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 27.4k

−0.768%

1 Year Growth

± 3.1%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Car Dealers Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −0.768%, , from 1.27M people in 2019 to 1.26M people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Car Dealers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Car Dealers at 21.5%, followed by Automotive service technicians & mechanics with 15.7% and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 11.8%.

Wages

Average Salary

$55,868

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,294

On average, employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group make $55,868 per year. This number makes Car Dealers the 127 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.437

WAGE GINI

Car Dealers has a wage GINI of 0.437, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Car Dealers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $59,932 and $58,544. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

276k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±12.9k

982k

MALE WORKFORCE

±24.2k

78.1% of workers in the Car Dealers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Car Dealers Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$59,932

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,560

$58,544

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,541

On average, Male workers in the Car 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 Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group earn 1.09 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Car 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 Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Car 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 Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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