Car Dealers

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Workforce
1.28M
2019 ACS Estimate
Average Employee Age
41.7
Average Salary
$54,528
Average Male Salary
$58,589
Average Female Salary
$56,634
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Workforce
Diversity
Input/Output

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 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $59,136. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $19,068.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group are Brooklyn Center, Golden Valley, New Hope & Robbinsdale Cities PUMA, MN, Houston City (West)North of US-90 & West of TX-6 PUMA, TX, and Cedar Hill & Duncanville Cities PUMA, TX. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Car Dealers.

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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 Chief executives & legislators.

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).

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Occupations

Occupations by Share

1.28M
Workforce (ACS Estimate)
± 27.7k
−0.115%
1 Year Growth
± 3.06%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Car Dealers Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −0.115%, , from 1.28M people in 2018 to 1.28M people in 2019.

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 21.3%, followed by Automotive service technicians & mechanics with 15.7% and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 10.6%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Car Dealers Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Automotive service technicians & mechanics, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cleaners of vehicles & equipment, and Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, & weighers.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Car Dealers employs an unusually high number of Parts salespersons, Automotive service technicians & mechanics, and Cleaners of vehicles & equipment.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Car Dealers, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Industrial production managers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$54,528
AVERAGE WAGE
± $1,256

On average, employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group make $54,528 per year. This number makes Car Dealers the 137 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

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Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA
HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS
  1. Vernon, Moraine, West Deerfield & Libertyville (Southeast) Townships PUMA, IL
  2. Olney, Damascus, Clarksburg & Darnestown PUMA, MD
  3. Chico City PUMA, CA

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.436
WAGE GINI

Car Dealers has a wage GINI of 0.436, 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).

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Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA
  1. Brooklyn Center, Golden Valley, New Hope & Robbinsdale Cities PUMA, MN
  2. Houston City (West)North of US-90 & West of TX-6 PUMA, TX
  3. Cedar Hill & Duncanville Cities PUMA, TX

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.

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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 $58,589 and $56,634. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

285k
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±13.1k
995k
MALE WORKFORCE
±24.4k

77.7% 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.

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$58,589
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$1,514
$56,634
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$1,497

On average, Male workers in the Car Dealers Industry Group make 1.03 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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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
  1. White
  2. Two or More Races
  3. American Indian

On average, White employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group earn 1.04 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.

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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

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Intermediate Inputs

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Transportation and warehousing
  3. Manufacturing

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

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Construction
  2. Manufacturing
  3. Retail trade

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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