Clothing stores

Industry Group

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Workforce

1.05M

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

33.9

Average Salary

$30,638

Average Male Salary

$41,318

Average Female Salary

$40,295

About

The top three occupations in the Clothing stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Customer service representatives, and Stockers and order fillers. On average, full-time employees in the Clothing stores Industry Group work 42 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $50,610. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $10,384.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Clothing stores Industry Group are Columbus (Far Northeast), Gahanna & New Albany Cities PUMA, OH, West Hollywood & Beverly Hills Cities PUMA, CA, and Columbus City (Central) PUMA, OH. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Clothing stores.

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Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Clothing stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Clothing stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Fashion designers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Clothing stores goes to Other financial specialists.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

142%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 282k people employed in the Clothing Stores industry. This represents a 142% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Clothing Stores over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

1.05M

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 25.1k

−2.06%

1 Year Growth

± 3.43%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Clothing stores Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −2.06%, , from 1.07M people in 2019 to 1.05M people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Clothing stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Clothing stores at 36.4%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 21% and Cashiers with 9.98%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Clothing stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Customer service representatives, and Stockers and order fillers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Clothing stores employs an unusually high number of Fashion designers, Tailors, dressmakers, & sewers, and Retail salespersons.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Clothing stores, by average wage, are Other financial specialists, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Chief executives & legislators.

Average Salary

$30,638

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,099

On average, employees in the Clothing stores Industry Group make $30,638 per year. This number makes Clothing stores the 245 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 Clothing stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.561

WAGE GINI

Clothing stores has a wage GINI of 0.561, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Clothing stores (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 Clothing stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Clothing stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Clothing stores Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Clothing stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $41,318 and $40,295. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

787k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±21.7k

266k

MALE WORKFORCE

±12.6k

74.8% of workers in the Clothing stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Clothing stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$41,318

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,910

$40,295

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,883

On average, Male workers in the Clothing stores Industry Group make 1.03 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Clothing stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
White

On average, Asian employees in the Clothing stores Industry Group earn 1.28 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 Clothing stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Clothing stores 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 Clothing stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Clothing stores Industry Group is Construction.

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 Clothing stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Clothing stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Clothing stores 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 Clothing stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Clothing stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Clothing stores Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.