Furniture & home furnishings stores

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The top three occupations in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Customer service representatives, and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand. On average, full-time employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group work 43.4 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $52,130. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $15,500.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group are Collier County (Northwest) PUMA, FL, Greater Fort Myers City PUMA, FL, and Houston City (West)North of US-90 & West of TX-6 PUMA, TX. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Furniture & home furnishings stores.

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Carpet, floor, & tile installers & finishers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Furniture & home furnishings stores goes to Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

41.3%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 257k people employed in the Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores industry. This represents a 41.3% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

528k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 17.8k

0.346%

1 Year Growth

± 4.76%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 0.346%, , from 526k people in 2019 to 528k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Furniture & home furnishings stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Furniture & home furnishings stores at 27.8%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 17.1% and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers with 4.94%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Driver/sales workers & truck drivers, Customer service representatives, and Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Furniture & home furnishings stores employs an unusually high number of Carpet, floor, & tile installers & finishers, Interior designers, and Retail salespersons.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Furniture & home furnishings stores, by average wage, are Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Network and computer systems administrators.

Average Salary

$42,916

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,602

On average, employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group make $42,916 per year. This number makes Furniture & home furnishings stores the 201 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.45

WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishings stores has a wage GINI of 0.45, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Furniture & home furnishings 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $49,327 and $48,351. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

247k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±12.2k

281k

MALE WORKFORCE

±13k

53.3% of workers in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$49,327

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,496

$48,351

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$2,485

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group make 1.02 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander

On average, Asian employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group earn 1.06 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Furniture & home furnishings 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Furniture & home furnishings 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Furniture & home furnishings 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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