Grocery Stores

Industry Group

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Workforce

2.97M

2017 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

37.1

Average Salary

$25,546

Average Male Salary

$29,077

Average Female Salary

$28,391

About

The top three occupations in the Grocery Stores Industry Group are Cashiers, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Stock clerks & order fillers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Grocery Stores Industry Group work 42.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $36,557. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $10,562.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Grocery Stores Industry Group are Monroe County (North & West) PUMA, NY, Subsistence Alaska PUMA, AK, and Polk County (Northwest) PUMA, FL. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Grocery Stores.

Photo by U.S. Department of Agriculture

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Grocery Stores Industry Group. Cashiers are the most common position, but the Grocery Stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Butchers & other meat, poultry, & fish processing workers, compared to other industries.

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

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

0.0722%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 1.39M people employed in the Grocery Stores industry. This represents a 0.0722% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Grocery Stores over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

2.97M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 41.9k

0.706%

1 Year Growth

± 1.98%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Grocery Stores Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 0.706%, , from 2.95M people in 2016 to 2.97M people in 2017.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Grocery Stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Cashiers represent the largest share of positions held in Grocery Stores at 26%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 16.4% and Stock clerks & order fillers with 12%.

Average Salary

$25,546

AVERAGE WAGE

± $441

On average, employees in the Grocery Stores Industry Group make $25,546 per year. This number makes Grocery Stores the 248 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 Grocery Stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

WAGE GINI

Grocery Stores has a wage GINI of 1, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Grocery Stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Grocery Stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Grocery Stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Grocery Stores Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Grocery Stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $29,077 and $28,391. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

1.45M

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±29.4k

1.52M

MALE WORKFORCE

±30.1k

51.1% of workers in the Grocery Stores Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Grocery Stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$29,077

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$703

$28,391

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$680

On average, Male workers in the Grocery Stores Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Grocery Stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

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On average, false employees in the Grocery Stores Industry Group earn NaNM 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 Grocery Stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Grocery Stores 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 Grocery Stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Grocery Stores 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

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

Intermediate Inputs

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

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Grocery Stores 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 Grocery Stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Grocery Stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Grocery Stores Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.