Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers

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Workforce Population

82.5k

2020

Average Employee Age

44.3

2020

Average Salary

$63,483

2020

Average Male Salary

$66,740

2020

Average Female Salary

$57,869

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 43.7 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $66,933. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23.3 hours and earn an average annual salary of $28,654.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group are High Point City PUMA, NC, Greater Delray Beach City PUMA, FL, and Somerset County (North & West) PUMA, NJ.

The workforce of Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2020 was 82,534 people, with 36.7% woman, and 63.3% men.

In 2020, 70% of the workforce in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (57,813 people), of which 37.9% were women and 62.1% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 82,534 people and is concentrated in California (13,484 workers). The average annual salary was $63,483, being $7,529 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

−5.83%

Year-over-year decline

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 19.4k people employed in the Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a −5.83% decrease in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (13.5k), Texas (7.53k), and Florida (5.35k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $63,483, $7,529 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.454

WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.454, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 15,190 workers, but the Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers goes to Human resources managers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Furniture & home furnishing 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 (15,190 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (9,920 people), and laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (4,806 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$66,740

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$8,533

$57,869

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$9,456

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.15 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

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

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Furniture & home furnishing 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 Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
4,438
New York
2,430
Texas
1,798

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 36.7% corresponds to women and 63.3% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $66,740 and $57,869.

75% of workers have a high school or equivalent, bachelors degree or some college.

Gender and Age

30,300

Women

36.7%

52,234

Men

63.3%

The workforce of Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers industry in 2020 was 82,534 people, with 36.7% woman, and 63.3% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2020, 70% of the workforce in the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers industry was White (57,813 people), of which 37.9% were women and 62.1% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers workers in 2020 were high school or equivalent (22,712 people), bachelors degree (22,229 people), and some college (16,983 people).

The chart shows the Furniture & home furnishing merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.