Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers

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Workforce Population
172k
2022
Average Employee Age
44.8
2022
Average Salary
$74,024
2022
Average Male Salary
$77,940
2022
Average Female Salary
$58,482
2022

About

The top three occupations in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 45.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $76,484. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22 hours and earn an average annual salary of $40,715.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Capital Region Planning Commission 5--Ascension Parish PUMA, LA, Philadelphia City (North) PUMA, PA, and Georgia Mountains Regional Commission--Hall County (East)--Gainesville City PUMA, GA.

The workforce of Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2022 was 172,150 people, with 20.1% woman, and 79.9% men.

In 2022, 75.4% of the workforce in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (129,881 people), of which 20.3% were women and 79.7% men.

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 172,150 people and is concentrated in Texas (17,656 workers). The average annual salary was $74,024, being $9,341 more than the national average salary, which was $64,683.

Monthly Employment

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0.435%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 23.1k people employed in the Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 0.435% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2022 were Texas (17.7k), California (16.3k), and Florida (12.7k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2022, Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $74,024, $9,341 more than the average national salary of $64,683.

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Wage Distribution

0.412
WAGE GINI

Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.412, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 36,696 workers, but the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

The highest average salary in Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Lumber & other construction materials 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 (36,696 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (19,868 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (19,267 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$77,940
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$5,519
$58,482
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$6,226

On average, Male workers in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Lumber & other construction materials 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.

Texas and California stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

The Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

The Manufacturing Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Lumber & other construction materials 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. 3,182
  2. 3,070
  3. 2,658

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 20.1% corresponds to women and 79.9% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $77,940 and $58,482.

77.5% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

34,646
Women
20.1%
137,504
Men
79.9%

The workforce of Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry in 2022 was 172,150 people, with 20.1% woman, and 79.9% men.

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Races

In 2022, 75.4% of the workforce in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry was White (129,881 people), of which 20.3% were women and 79.7% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Two or More Races and Black.

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers workers in 2022 were high school or equivalent (56,601 people), some college (41,515 people), and bachelors degree (35,371 people).

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