Miscellaneous retail stores

Industry Group

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Workforce

466k

2020 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

37.9

Average Salary

$36,460

Average Male Salary

$45,019

Average Female Salary

$43,645

About

The top three occupations in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Nonfarm animal caretakers, and Customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group work 43 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $48,167. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $14,369.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group are Santa Fe County PUMA, NM, Guaynabo & Cataño Municipios PUMA, PR, and Johnson County PUMA, TX. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Miscellaneous retail stores.

Photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Etchers & engravers, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Miscellaneous retail stores goes to Welding, soldering, & brazing workers.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

28.5%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 41k people employed in the Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers industry. This represents a 28.5% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Other Miscellaneous Store Retailers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Occupations by Share

466k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 16.7k

1.06%

1 Year Growth

± 5.04%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group has been growing at a rate of 1.06%, , from 461k people in 2019 to 466k people in 2020.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Miscellaneous retail stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Miscellaneous retail stores at 25.4%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 22.4% and Cashiers with 8.62%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Nonfarm animal caretakers, and Customer service representatives.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Miscellaneous retail stores employs an unusually high number of Etchers & engravers, Nonfarm animal caretakers, and Animal trainers.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Miscellaneous retail stores, by average wage, are Welding, soldering, & brazing workers, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Architectural & engineering managers.

Average Salary

$36,460

AVERAGE WAGE

± $1,774

On average, employees in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group make $36,460 per year. This number makes Miscellaneous retail stores the 228 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 Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.509

WAGE GINI

Miscellaneous retail stores has a wage GINI of 0.509, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Miscellaneous retail 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 Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group.

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

Diversity

Demographic information on the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $45,019 and $43,645. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

248k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±12.2k

218k

MALE WORKFORCE

±11.5k

53.3% of workers in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group are Female, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$45,019

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$3,036

$43,645

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$3,012

On average, Male workers in the Miscellaneous retail 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 Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
Asian
White

On average, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander employees in the Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group earn 1.29 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 Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Miscellaneous retail 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 Miscellaneous retail stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Miscellaneous retail 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 Miscellaneous retail stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Miscellaneous retail stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Miscellaneous retail 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 Miscellaneous retail stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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