Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
116k
2022
Average Employee Age
43.4
2022
Average Salary
$72,086
2022
Average Male Salary
$88,525
2022
Average Female Salary
$58,537
2022

About

The top three occupations in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand. On average, full-time employees in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 43.1 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $78,708. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $28,766.

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2022 was 116,075 people, with 54.8% woman, and 45.2% men.

In 2022, 55.5% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (64,466 people), of which 52.5% were women and 47.5% men.

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 116,075 people and is concentrated in California (30,881 workers). The average annual salary was $72,086, being $7,403 more than the national average salary, which was $64,683.

Monthly Employment

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−3.95%
Year-over-year decline
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 58.4k people employed in the Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a −3.95% decrease in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2022 were California (30.9k), New York (15.4k), and New Jersey (10.2k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2022, Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $72,086, $7,403 more than the average national salary of $64,683.

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Wage Distribution

0.49
WAGE GINI

Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.49, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers (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 Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 18,164 workers, but the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand.

The highest average salary in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2022, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (18,164 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (14,008 people), and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (6,312 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$88,525
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$11,767
$58,537
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$6,261

On average, Male workers in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.51 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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.

California and New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

The Apparel, piece goods, & notions 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

The closest comparable data for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

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

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016
  1. 10,616
  2. 6,766
  3. 2,046

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 54.8% corresponds to women and 45.2% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $88,525 and $58,537.

73.6% of workers have a bachelors degree, high school or equivalent or some college.

Gender and Age

63,633
Women
54.8%
52,442
Men
45.2%

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry in 2022 was 116,075 people, with 54.8% woman, and 45.2% men.

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Races

In 2022, 55.5% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry was White (64,466 people), of which 52.5% were women and 47.5% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers workers in 2022 were bachelors degree (38,950 people), high school or equivalent (25,792 people), and some college (20,665 people).

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