Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

797k

2021

Average Employee Age

42.8

2021

Average Salary

$57,774

2021

Average Male Salary

$61,192

2021

Average Female Salary

$48,455

2021

About

The top three occupations in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group are driver/sales workers & truck drivers, sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 45.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $61,216. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $23,326.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Adams, Pike, Brown, Schuyler & Mason Counties PUMA, IL, Sunnyside & Grandview Cities PUMA, WA, and Chelan & Douglas Counties PUMA, WA.

The workforce of Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2021 was 797,247 people, with 26.8% woman, and 73.2% men.

In 2021, 64.8% of the workforce in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (516,571 people), of which 26.1% were women and 73.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 797,247 people and is concentrated in California (117,927 workers). The average annual salary was $57,774, being $1,822 less than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

1.87%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 359k people employed in the Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 1.87% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Grocery and Related Product Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (118k), Texas (67.5k), and Florida (51.7k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $57,774, $1,822 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.405

WAGE GINI

Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.405, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Grocery & related product 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 Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Driver/sales workers & truck drivers are the most common position with 128,957 workers, but the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing and Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers.

The highest average salary in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were driver/sales workers & truck drivers (128,957 people), sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (103,150 people), and firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (80,257 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$61,192

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,894

$48,455

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,972

On average, Male workers in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.26 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Grocery & related product 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 Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Grocery & related product 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Grocery & related product 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 Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Grocery & related product 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 Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 26.8% corresponds to women and 73.2% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $61,192 and $48,455.

74.5% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

213,955

Women

26.8%

583,292

Men

73.2%

The workforce of Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers industry in 2021 was 797,247 people, with 26.8% woman, and 73.2% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2021, 64.8% of the workforce in the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers industry was White (516,571 people), of which 26.1% were women and 73.9% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (275,311 people), some college (180,310 people), and bachelors degree (138,367 people).

The chart shows the Grocery & related product merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.