Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers

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Workforce Population

172k

2020

Average Employee Age

44.4

2020

Average Salary

$64,098

2020

Average Male Salary

$67,026

2020

Average Female Salary

$51,973

2020

About

The top three occupations in the Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 45.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $66,294. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.8 hours and earn an average annual salary of $33,597.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Ascension Parish PUMA, LA, Lafayette Parish (South) PUMA, LA, and Delaware County (West) PUMA, PA.

The workforce of Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2020 was 171,720 people, with 19.5% woman, and 80.5% men.

In 2020, 80.9% of the workforce in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (138,944 people), of which 20.1% were women and 79.9% men.

Wholesale Trade

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 171,720 people and is concentrated in Texas (17,462 workers). The average annual salary was $64,098, being $8,144 more than the national average salary, which was $55,954.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

0.435%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 23.1k people employed in the Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 0.435% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Lumber and Other Construction Materials Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2020 were Texas (17.5k), California (17.2k), and Florida (11.2k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2020, Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $64,098, $8,144 more than the average national salary of $55,954.

The graph shows the position of Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.416

WAGE GINI

Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.416, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 36,420 workers, but the Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Lumber & other construction materials 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 (36,420 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (20,188 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (19,379 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$67,026

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,788

$51,973

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$6,961

On average, Male workers in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.29 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Lumber & other construction materials 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.

Texas and California stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Lumber & other construction materials 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 Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2016

Texas
3,182
California
3,070
Florida
2,658

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 19.5% corresponds to women and 80.5% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $67,026 and $51,973.

78% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

33,401

Women

19.5%

138,319

Men

80.5%

The workforce of Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry in 2020 was 171,720 people, with 19.5% woman, and 80.5% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2020, 80.9% of the workforce in the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers industry was White (138,944 people), of which 20.1% were women and 79.9% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers workers in 2020 were high school or equivalent (57,184 people), some college (42,660 people), and bachelors degree (34,160 people).

The chart shows the Lumber & other construction materials merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.