Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

179k

2020

Average Employee Age

44.7

2020

Average Salary

$66,602

2020

Average Male Salary

$71,520

2020

Average Female Salary

$51,528

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.4 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $68,922. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23 hours and earn an average annual salary of $32,167.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Cape Girardeau, Scott & Bollinger Counties PUMA, MO, Jackson County (South Central) PUMA, MO, and Lafayette Parish (South) PUMA, LA.

The workforce of Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2020 was 179,404 people, with 24.6% woman, and 75.4% men.

In 2020, 83.6% of the workforce in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (150,030 people), of which 24% were women and 76% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 179,404 people and is concentrated in California (20,599 workers). The average annual salary was $66,602, being $10,648 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

0.332%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 30.2k people employed in the Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Whole industry. This represents a 0.332% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Hardware, and Plumbing and Heating Equipment and Supplies Merchant Whole over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were California (20.6k), Texas (16.3k), and Florida (10.1k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $66,602, $10,648 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.405

WAGE GINI

Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 49,545 workers, but the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

The highest average salary in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 (49,545 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (21,403 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (10,036 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$71,520

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$5,047

$51,528

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$4,381

On average, Male workers in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.39 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Texas stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies 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 Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

California
4,316
Texas
3,226
Florida
2,776

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 24.6% corresponds to women and 75.4% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $71,520 and $51,528.

80.8% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

44,135

Women

24.6%

135,269

Men

75.4%

The workforce of Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry in 2020 was 179,404 people, with 24.6% woman, and 75.4% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2020, 83.6% of the workforce in the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry was White (150,030 people), of which 24% were women and 76% men.

Other races that concentrated a significant number of workers were Black and Two or More Races.

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workers in 2020 were high school or equivalent (55,033 people), some college (49,486 people), and bachelors degree (40,503 people).

The chart shows the Hardware, & plumbing & heating equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.