Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce

82.5k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

44.3

Average Salary

$63,483

Average Male Salary

$66,740

Average Female Salary

$65,877

About

The top three occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 43.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $66,933. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $28,654.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are High Point City PUMA, NC, Kennebec County PUMA, ME, and Northwest Georgia Regional Commission (Northeast) PUMA, GA. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers.

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Wholesale Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group. Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position, but the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Furniture finishers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers goes to Human resources managers.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

7.78%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 19.4k people employed in the Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 7.78% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations

Occupations by Share

82.5k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 7.05k

−2.82%

1 Year Growth

± 12.3%

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 −2.82%, , from 84.9k people in 2019 to 82.5k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing represent the largest share of positions held in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers at 18.4%, followed by Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 12% and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand with 5.82%.

Most Common

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

Most Specialized

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

Highest Paid

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

Wages

Average Salary

$63,483

AVERAGE WAGE

± $6,430

On average, employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make $63,483 per year. This number makes Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers the 87 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.454

WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.454, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers (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 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.

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 $66,740 and $65,877. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

30.3k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±4.27k

52.2k

MALE WORKFORCE

±5.61k

63.3% of workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$66,740

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$8,533

$65,877

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$8,346

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.01 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
Asian
White

On average, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group earn 1.36 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.

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 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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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