Beer, wine, & liquor stores

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
170k
2023
Average Employee Age
41.4
2023
Average Salary
$47,023
2023
Average Male Salary
$52,808
2023
Average Female Salary
$37,158
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group are retail salespersons, firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, and cashiers. On average, full-time employees in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group work 43.8 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $59,385. Part-time employees in the same industry work 22.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $18,985.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group are Napa County--Napa, American Canyon & St. Helena Cities PUMA, CA, Loveland PUMA, CO, and Jasper and Beaufort (West) Counties--Bluffton and Hilton Head Cities PUMA, SC.

The workforce of Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group in 2023 was 169,915 people, with 37% woman, and 63% men.

In 2023, 68.4% of the workforce in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group was White (116,172 people), of which 37.1% were women and 62.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group.

The workforce in Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group was 169,915 people and is concentrated in California (20,091 workers). The average annual salary was $47,023, being $20,704 less than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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−2.14%
Year-over-year decline
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 18.3k people employed in the Beer, Wine, and Liquor Stores industry. This represents a −2.14% decrease 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 (20.1k), Texas (14.5k), and New York (12.5k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group had an average annual wage of $47,023, $20,704 less than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.476
WAGE GINI

Beer, wine, & liquor stores has a wage GINI of 0.476, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Beer, wine, & liquor stores (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 Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group.

Retail salespersons are the most common position with 41,907 workers, but the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers and Cashiers.

The highest average salary in Beer, wine, & liquor stores goes to Software developers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (41,907 people), firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (40,993 people), and cashiers (34,179 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$52,808
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$4,463
$37,158
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$4,067

On average, Male workers in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group make 1.42 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Beer, wine, & liquor 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.

The industrial flow illustrates the intermediate inputs and the use of outputs of the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group.

The Beer, wine, & liquor stores 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 New York stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

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Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Beer, wine, & liquor 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.

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Intermediate Inputs

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HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY
  1. Professional and business services
  2. Transportation and warehousing
  3. Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing

The Beer, wine, & liquor 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.

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Use of Output by Other Industries

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LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY
  1. Construction
  2. Manufacturing
  3. Transportation and warehousing

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Beer, wine, & liquor stores 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
    4,372
  2. New York
    3,399
  3. Texas
    2,334

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Beer, wine, & liquor stores Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 37% corresponds to women and 63% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $52,808 and $37,158.

78.4% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

62,807
Women
37%
107,108
Men
63%

The workforce of Beer, wine, & liquor stores industry in 2023 was 169,915 people, with 37% woman, and 63% men.

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Races

In 2023, 68.4% of the workforce in the Beer, wine, & liquor stores industry was White (116,172 people), of which 37.1% were women and 62.9% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Beer, wine, & liquor stores workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (49,001 people), some college (43,694 people), and bachelors degree (40,589 people).

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