Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers

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Workforce
183k
2019 ACS Estimate
Average Employee Age
44.7
Average Salary
$63,863
Average Male Salary
$67,897
Average Female Salary
$68,002
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Input/Output

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The top three occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Shipping, receiving, & traffic clerks. On average, full-time employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $66,552. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $26,864.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Cape Girardeau, Scott & Bollinger Counties PUMA, MO, South Plainfield & Middlesex Boroughs PUMA, NJ, and Orem, Pleasant Grove, American Fork & Lindon Cities PUMA, UT. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers.

Wholesale Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group. Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position, but the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Solar photovoltaic installers, compared to other industries. 

The highest average salary in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Monthly Employment

Start Year
Y-Axis
3.27%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 28.4k people employed in the Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Whole industry. This represents a 3.27% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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Occupations

Occupations by Share

183k
Workforce (ACS Estimate)
± 10.5k
5.76%
1 Year Growth
± 7.78%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 5.76%, , from 173k people in 2018 to 183k people in 2019.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing represent the largest share of positions held in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers at 29.4%, followed by Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 12.1% and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers with 5.49%.

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Most Common

The most common occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, by number of employees, are Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, and Shipping, receiving, & traffic clerks.

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Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers employs an unusually high number of Solar photovoltaic installers, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, and Sales engineers.

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Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Sales engineers, and Other managers.

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Wages

Average Salary

$63,863
AVERAGE WAGE
± $3,700

On average, employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make $63,863 per year. This number makes Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers the 83 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. Albany County (Outside Albany City) PUMA, NY
  2. Centennial (West & Central) & Greenwood Village Cities PUMA, CO
  3. James City, York Counties, Williamsburg & Poquoson Cities PUMA, VA

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage Distribution

0.395
WAGE GINI

Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.395, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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. Cape Girardeau, Scott & Bollinger Counties PUMA, MO
  2. South Plainfield & Middlesex Boroughs PUMA, NJ
  3. Orem, Pleasant Grove, American Fork & Lindon Cities PUMA, UT

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn less than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $67,897 and $68,002. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

43.4k
FEMALE WORKFORCE
±5.11k
140k
MALE WORKFORCE
±9.17k

76.3% of workers in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$67,897
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$4,615
$68,002
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$4,944

On average, Male workers in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 0.998 times less than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY
  1. Two or More Races
  2. White
  3. American Indian

On average, Two or More Races employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group earn 1.15 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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

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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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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. Wholesale trade

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

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