Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

233k

2020

Average Employee Age

43.7

2020

Estimated Job Growth

−1.73%

10-Year Projection

Average Salary

$93,895

2020

Average Male Salary

$104,071

2020

Average Female Salary

$82,083

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.4 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $98,565. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $32,854.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Phoenixville Borough PUMA, PA, South Bend City PUMA, IN, and Columbus (Far Northwest), Dublin & Hilliard (North) Cities PUMA, OH.

The workforce of Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2020 was 232,905 people, with 46.3% woman, and 53.7% men.

In 2020, 75.1% of the workforce in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (174,892 people), of which 44.8% were women and 55.2% men.

Wholesale Trade

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 232,905 people and is concentrated in California (27,999 workers). The average annual salary was $93,895, being $37,941 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

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

Start Year

Y-Axis

0.946%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 28.9M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 0.946% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (28k), Texas (21.8k), and New Jersey (16.3k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $93,895, $37,941 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.441

WAGE GINI

Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.441, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products 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 Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 66,055 workers, but the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Customer service representatives.

The highest average salary in Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers goes to Physicians.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2020, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (66,055 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (26,269 people), and customer service representatives (8,898 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$104,071

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$6,942

$82,083

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$5,971

On average, Male workers in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.27 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied 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.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied 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.

California and New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied 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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
43,550
New York
25,426
Texas
18,332

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 46.3% corresponds to women and 53.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $104,071 and $82,083.

74.7% of workers have a bachelors degree, high school or equivalent or some college.

Gender and Age

107,789

Women

46.3%

125,116

Men

53.7%

The workforce of Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers industry in 2020 was 232,905 people, with 46.3% woman, and 53.7% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2020, 75.1% of the workforce in the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers industry was White (174,892 people), of which 44.8% were women and 55.2% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers workers in 2020 were bachelors degree (95,169 people), high school or equivalent (39,732 people), and some college (39,006 people).

The chart shows the Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.

Projections

Growth projections of the Wholesale Trade industry, both by number of employees and output, from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. The national workforce is projected to grow 7.66% in the next ten years. The Wholesale Trade industry has a lower projected workforce growth at −1.73%. Its projected 10-year growth in output (29.4%) is higher than the projected national growth in output (24.2%).

Job Growth

For growth projections, the closest comparable industry reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is Wholesale Trade.

−1.73%

Estimated Job Growth

10-year Projection

7.66%

National Growth

10-year Projection

This line chart shows the projected 10-year growth in the number of jobs for Wholesale Trade. This industry is expected to grow less than than 7.66%, the average rate of national job growth.