Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers

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Workforce Population

116k

2021

Average Employee Age

43.3

2021

Average Salary

$67,219

2021

Average Male Salary

$83,436

2021

Average Female Salary

$54,174

2021

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 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $73,526. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.8 hours and earn an average annual salary of $24,437.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group are LA City (Southeast/East Vernon) PUMA, CA, LA City (East Central/Central City & Boyle Heights) PUMA, CA, and Sheepshead Bay, Gerritsen Beach & Homecrest PUMA, NY.

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2021 was 116,474 people, with 55.4% woman, and 44.6% men.

In 2021, 59.2% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (68,937 people), of which 53.1% were women and 46.9% men.

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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 116,474 people and is concentrated in California (31,629 workers). The average annual salary was $67,219, being $7,623 more than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

−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.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Apparel, Piece Goods, and Notions Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (31.6k), New York (16k), and New Jersey (9.6k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $67,219, $7,623 more than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.498

WAGE GINI

Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.498, 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).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

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 18,536 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 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (18,536 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (14,163 people), and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (6,033 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$83,436

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$11,149

$54,174

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$5,901

On average, Male workers in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.54 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.

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.

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.

Intermediate Inputs

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

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

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

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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.

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
10,616
New York
6,766
Florida
2,046

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

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

Of the total workforce, 55.4% corresponds to women and 44.6% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $83,436 and $54,174.

74.1% of workers have a bachelors degree, high school or equivalent or some college.

Gender and Age

64,551

Women

55.4%

51,923

Men

44.6%

The workforce of Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry in 2021 was 116,474 people, with 55.4% woman, and 44.6% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2021, 59.2% of the workforce in the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers industry was White (68,937 people), of which 53.1% were women and 46.9% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers workers in 2021 were bachelors degree (38,474 people), high school or equivalent (25,873 people), and some college (21,909 people).

The chart shows the Apparel, piece goods, & notions merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.