Car Dealers

Industry Group

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    Workforce Population
    1.24M
    2024
    Average Employee Age
    42
    2024
    Average Salary
    $71,997
    2024
    Average Male Salary
    $76,980
    2024
    Average Female Salary
    $54,648
    2024

    About

    The top three occupations in the Car Dealers Industry Group are retail salespersons, automotive service technicians & mechanics, and firstline supervisors of retail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group work 45.5 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $77,174. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $25,285.

    The workforce of Car Dealers Industry Group in 2024 was 1,241,557 people, with 22.3% woman, and 77.7% men.

    In 2024, 68.3% of the workforce in the Car Dealers Industry Group was White (848,362 people), of which 22.7% were women and 77.3% men.

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    Employment & Salaries

    A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Car Dealers Industry Group.

    The workforce in Car Dealers Industry Group was 1,241,557 people and is concentrated in Texas (126,199 workers). The average annual salary was $71,997, being $2,119 more than the national average salary, which was $69,878.

    Monthly Employment

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    Y-Axis
    1.52%
    Year-over-year growth
    Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

    As of February 2023, there are 561k people employed in the Automobile Dealers industry. This represents a 1.52% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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

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    Employment by Location

    The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2024 were Texas (126k), California (115k), and Florida (92.8k).

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    Yearly Wage Ranking

    In 2024, Car Dealers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $71,997, $2,119 more than the average national salary of $69,878.

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    Wage Distribution

    0.441
    WAGE GINI

    Car Dealers has a wage GINI of 0.441, which is less than than the national average of 0.474. 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).

    The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Car Dealers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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    Occupations

    A review of jobs and wages in the Car Dealers Industry Group.

    Retail salespersons are the most common position with 256,044 workers, but the Car Dealers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Automotive service technicians & mechanics and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers.

    The highest average salary in Car Dealers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

    Occupations Distribution

    The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2024, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (256,044 people), automotive service technicians & mechanics (191,357 people), and firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (152,594 people)

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    Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

    $76,980
    AVERAGE MALE SALARY
    ±$2,063
    $54,648
    AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
    ±$2,657

    On average, Male workers in the Car Dealers Industry Group make 1.41 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.

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    Business

    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.

    The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Car Dealers Industry Group.

    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.

    Texas and California stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Car Dealers Industry Group.

    Industrial Flow

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

    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.

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    Intermediate Inputs

    The closest comparable data for Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.
    HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
    1. Professional and business services
    2. Transportation and warehousing
    3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

    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.

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    Use of Output by Other Industries

    The closest comparable data for Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.
    LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
    1. Construction
    2. Manufacturing
    3. Transportation and warehousing

    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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    Establishments

    States with more establishments in 2022
    1. Texas
      4,274
    2. California
      3,669
    3. Florida
      3,387

    The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Car Dealers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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    Diversity

    Demographic information on the Car Dealers Industry Group in the US.

    Of the total workforce, 22.3% corresponds to women and 77.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $76,980 and $54,648.

    78.7% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

    Gender and Age

    277,051
    Women
    22.3%
    964,506
    Men
    77.7%

    The workforce of Car Dealers industry in 2024 was 1,241,557 people, with 22.3% woman, and 77.7% men.

    The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Car Dealers industry.

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    Races

    In 2024, 68.3% of the workforce in the Car Dealers industry was White (848,362 people), of which 22.7% were women and 77.3% men.

    Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races and Black.

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    Educational Levels

    The main educational levels achieved by the Car Dealers workers in 2024 were high school or equivalent (446,801 people), some college (361,657 people), and bachelors degree (168,913 people).

    The chart shows the Car Dealers workforce by gender and educational level.

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