Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce

98.4k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

Average Salary

$79,612

Average Male Salary

$84,449

Average Female Salary

$84,767

About

The top three occupations in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, Accountants & auditors, and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand. On average, full-time employees in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 46.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $82,019. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.5 hours and earn an average annual salary of $37,794.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Montgomery County (South)The Woodlands (North) PUMA, TX, North of FM-1960, West of I-45 & East of TX-249 PUMA, TX, and Far Southeast New Mexico PUMA, NM. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers.

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group. Driver/sales workers & truck drivers are the most common position, but the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Pumping station operators, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers goes to Geoscientists and hydrologists, except geographers.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

9.62%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 27.4M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 9.62% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Trade, Transportation, and Utilities over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

98.4k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 7.7k

−4.38%

1 Year Growth

± 11.4%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −4.38%, , from 103k people in 2019 to 98.4k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Driver/sales workers & truck drivers represent the largest share of positions held in Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers at 16.9%, followed by Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers with 9.52% and Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing with 9.17%.

Average Salary

$79,612

AVERAGE WAGE

± $6,050

On average, employees in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group make $79,612 per year. This number makes Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers the 41 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 Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.406

WAGE GINI

Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.406, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn less than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $84,449 and $84,767. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

25.2k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±3.9k

73.3k

MALE WORKFORCE

±6.64k

74.4% of workers in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$84,449

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$7,398

$84,767

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$7,098

On average, Male workers in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 0.996 times less than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

White
Two or More Races
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

On average, White employees in the Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group earn 1.04 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 Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Petroleum & petroleum products 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 Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Petroleum & petroleum products 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

The closest comparable data for Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Petroleum & petroleum products 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 Petroleum & petroleum products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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