Building material & supplies dealers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
1.11M
2023
Average Employee Age
41.9
2023
Average Salary
$47,980
2023
Average Male Salary
$52,111
2023
Average Female Salary
$39,192
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group are retail salespersons, firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, and customer service representatives. On average, full-time employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group work 42.8 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $58,240. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.7 hours and earn an average annual salary of $18,143.

The workforce of Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in 2023 was 1,107,075 people, with 32% woman, and 68% men.

In 2023, 69.9% of the workforce in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group was White (773,646 people), of which 31.2% were women and 68.8% men.

Retail Trade

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

The workforce in Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group was 1,107,075 people and is concentrated in California (99,360 workers). The average annual salary was $47,980, being $19,747 less 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 California (99.4k), Texas (92.8k), and Florida (82k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $47,980, $19,747 less than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.449
WAGE GINI

Building material & supplies dealers has a wage GINI of 0.449, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Building material & supplies dealers (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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Retail salespersons are the most common position with 278,460 workers, but the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers and Customer service representatives.

The highest average salary in Building material & supplies dealers goes to Sales engineers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (278,460 people), firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (139,832 people), and customer service representatives (92,899 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$52,111
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$1,766
$39,192
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$1,677

On average, Male workers in the Building material & supplies dealers 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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Building material & supplies dealers 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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

The Building material & supplies dealers 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 Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Building material & supplies dealers 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.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.
HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Transportation and warehousing
  3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

The Building material & supplies dealers 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

The closest comparable data for Building material & supplies dealers is from Retail Trade.
LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Construction
  2. Manufacturing
  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Building material & supplies dealers 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. California
    5,094
  2. Texas
    3,845
  3. Florida
    3,526

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Building material & supplies dealers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 32% corresponds to women and 68% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $52,111 and $39,192.

79.3% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

354,030
Women
32%
753,045
Men
68%

The workforce of Building material & supplies dealers industry in 2023 was 1,107,075 people, with 32% woman, and 68% men.

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Races

In 2023, 69.9% of the workforce in the Building material & supplies dealers industry was White (773,646 people), of which 31.2% were women and 68.8% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Building material & supplies dealers workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (385,281 people), some college (318,179 people), and bachelors degree (174,075 people).

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