Grocery Stores

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
2.99M
2017
Average Employee Age
37.1
2017
Average Salary
$25,453
2017
Average Male Salary
$28,963
2017
Average Female Salary
$21,786
2017

About

The top three occupations in the Grocery Stores N/A are cashiers, firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, and stock clerks & order fillers. On average, full-time employees in the Grocery Stores N/A work 42.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $36,443. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $10,539.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Grocery Stores N/A are N/A.

The workforce of Grocery Stores N/A in 2017 was 2,993,519 people, with 48.9% woman, and 51.1% men.

In 2017, 73.8% of the workforce in the Grocery Stores N/A was White (2,210,085 people), of which 49.8% were women and 50.2% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Grocery Stores N/A.

The workforce in Grocery Stores N/A was 2,993,519 people and is concentrated in California (321,568 workers). The average annual salary was $25,453, being $42,274 less than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

Start Year
Y-Axis
1.81%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 1.43M people employed in the Grocery Stores industry. This represents a 1.81% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2017 were California (322k), Texas (244k), and Florida (223k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2017, Grocery Stores N/A had an average annual wage of $25,453, $42,274 less than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.472
WAGE GINI

Grocery Stores has a wage GINI of 0.472, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Grocery Stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Grocery Stores N/A.

Cashiers are the most common position with 780,883 workers, but the Grocery Stores N/A employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers and Stock clerks & order fillers.

The highest average salary in Grocery Stores goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Grocery Stores N/A according to occupations. In 2017, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were cashiers (780,883 people), firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (491,122 people), and stock clerks & order fillers (360,396 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$28,963
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$698
$21,786
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$509

On average, Male workers in the Grocery Stores N/A make 1.33 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Grocery Stores N/A.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Grocery Stores N/A. 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 Grocery Stores N/A.

The Grocery Stores N/A gets the most input, by its share of the cost of all intermediate inputs, from the Professional and business services Industry.

New York and California stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Grocery Stores N/A.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Grocery Stores is from Retail Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Grocery Stores N/A, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Grocery Stores N/A 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 Grocery Stores 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 Grocery Stores N/A 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 Grocery Stores 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 Grocery Stores N/A in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Grocery Stores N/A for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022
  1. New York
    12,472
  2. California
    11,117
  3. Texas
    7,580

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Grocery Stores N/A in the US.

Of the total workforce, 48.9% corresponds to women and 51.1% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $28,963 and $21,786.

79.2% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or secondary education.

Gender and Age

1,464,125
Women
48.9%
1,529,394
Men
51.1%

The workforce of Grocery Stores industry in 2017 was 2,993,519 people, with 48.9% woman, and 51.1% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Grocery Stores industry.

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Races

In 2017, 73.8% of the workforce in the Grocery Stores industry was White (2,210,085 people), of which 49.8% were women and 50.2% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Other.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Grocery Stores workers in 2017 were high school or equivalent (1,124,565 people), some college (843,182 people), and secondary education (404,603 people).

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