Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
48.9k
2023
Average Employee Age
46.5
2023
Average Salary
$85,904
2023
Average Male Salary
$91,914
2023
Average Female Salary
$69,057
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) 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 Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $89,266. Part-time employees in the same industry work 19.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $45,254.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Cook County (South Central)--Worth & Calumet Townships PUMA, IL, Chester County (North) PUMA, PA, and Pettis, Randolph, Saline, Cooper, Howard, Carroll & Chariton Counties PUMA, MO.

The workforce of Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2023 was 48,862 people, with 26.3% woman, and 73.7% men.

In 2023, 73.9% of the workforce in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (36,122 people), of which 28.1% were women and 71.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 48,862 people and is concentrated in Texas (6,234 workers). The average annual salary was $85,904, being $18,177 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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0.946%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 28.9M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 0.946% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

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Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2023 were Texas (6.23k), California (5.64k), and Pennsylvania (2.85k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $85,904, $18,177 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.417
WAGE GINI

Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.417, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

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Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 9,182 workers, but the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) 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 Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers goes to Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing (9,182 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (5,913 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (3,626 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$91,914
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$12,361
$69,057
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$13,059

On average, Male workers in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.33 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) 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 Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Metals & minerals (except petroleum) 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 Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

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Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Metals & minerals (except petroleum) 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.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Manufacturing
  2. Construction
  3. Educational services, health care, and social assistance

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

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Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022
  1. Texas
    1,106
  2. California
    1,027
  3. Illinois
    503

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 26.3% corresponds to women and 73.7% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $91,914 and $69,057.

74.4% of workers have a high school or equivalent, bachelors degree or some college.

Gender and Age

12,848
Women
26.3%
36,014
Men
73.7%

The workforce of Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers industry in 2023 was 48,862 people, with 26.3% woman, and 73.7% men.

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Races

In 2023, 73.9% of the workforce in the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers industry was White (36,122 people), of which 28.1% were women and 71.9% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Metals & minerals (except petroleum) merchant wholesalers workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (14,024 people), bachelors degree (11,562 people), and some college (10,746 people).

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