Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers

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Workforce

87.1k

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

44.2

Estimated Job Growth

N/A%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$58,021

Average Male Salary

$60,984

Average Female Salary

$51,888

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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, Industrial truck & tractor operators, and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $61,016. Part-time employees in the same industry work 24.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $25,649.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Pender & New Hanover (North) Counties PUMA, NC, High Point City PUMA, NC, and Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach & Homecrest PUMA, NY. 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. Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position, but the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, compared to other industries. 

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

Occupations

Occupations by Share

87.1k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 7.24k

7.63%

1 Year Growth

± 11.1%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 7.63%, , from 81k people in 2016 to 87.1k people in 2017.

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 22.8%, followed by Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 14% and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand with 4.61%.

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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, Industrial truck & tractor operators, and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

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Most Specialized

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

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Financial managers, and Computer & information systems managers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$58,021

AVERAGE WAGE

± $5,060

On average, employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make $58,021 per year. This number makes Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers the 93 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 266 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

0.434

WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.434, which is less than than the national average of 0.479. 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).

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Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

  1. Pender & New Hanover (North) Counties PUMA, NC

  2. High Point City PUMA, NC

  3. Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach & Homecrest PUMA, NY

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 $60,984 and $51,888. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Gender Composition

28.4k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±4.14k

58.7k

MALE WORKFORCE

±5.95k

67.4% 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

$60,984

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$6,802

$51,888

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$6,471

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.18 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. White

  2. Asian

  3. Two or More Races

On average, White employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers 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 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

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

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Intermediate Inputs

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

  1. Professional and business services

  2. Transportation and warehousing

  3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

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

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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Projections

Growth projections of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 8.13% in the next ten years. The Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group has a lower projected workforce growth at N/A%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (N/A%) is lower than the projected national growth in output (24.6%).

Job Growth

N/A%

ESTIMATED GROWTH

8.13%

NATIONAL AVERAGE

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group, which is lower than the national average of 8.13%.

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Output Growth

N/A%

ESTIMATED GROWTH

24.6%

NATIONAL AVERAGE

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in output of the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group, which is lower than the national average of 24.6%

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