Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers

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Workforce
75.2k
2018 ACS Estimate
Average Employee Age
45
Average Salary
$67,663
Average Male Salary
$69,389
Average Female Salary
$64,770
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The top three occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $73,110. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $17,141.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are North Plainfield & Somerville Boroughs PUMA, NJ, Greensboro City (North) PUMA, NC, and Portland City (Northwest & Southwest) PUMA, OR. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group. Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers are the most common position, but the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Carpet, floor, & tile installers & finishers, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

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Occupations by Share

75.2k
Workforce (ACS Estimate)
± 6.73k
-13.7%
1 Year Growth
± 14.2%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group has been declining at a rate of -13.7%, , from 87.1k people in 2017 to 75.2k people in 2018.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers represent the largest share of positions held in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers at 15.4%, followed by Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing with 14.6% and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers with 6.17%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group, by number of employees, are Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Customer service representatives.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers employs an unusually high number of Carpet, floor, & tile installers & finishers, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Marketing managers, and Project management specialists.

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Wages

Average Salary

$67,663
AVERAGE WAGE
± $7,641

On average, employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make $67,663 per year. This number makes Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers the 63 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. South of I-635 & West of US-75 PUMA, TX
  2. Frisco (West), The Colony & Little Elm Cities PUMA, TX
  3. Hilton Head Island, Bluffton Towns & Beaufort City PUMA, SC

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.488
WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.488, which is more than than the national average of 0.479. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers (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. North Plainfield & Somerville Boroughs PUMA, NJ
  2. Greensboro City (North) PUMA, NC
  3. Portland City (Northwest & Southwest) PUMA, OR

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $69,389 and $64,770. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

28.1k
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±4.11k
47.1k
MALE WORKFORCE
±5.33k

62.6% of workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common gender in the workforce. This chart shows the gender breakdown of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage by Gender in Common Jobs

$69,389
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$9,784
$64,770
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$12,205

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.07 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the gender-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
  1. Asian
  2. White
  3. Black

On average, Asian employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group earn 1.12 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Furniture & home furnishing 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

In this visualization, click on a category to expand or collapse it. 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. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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