Car Dealers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
1.25M
2023
Average Employee Age
42
2023
Average Salary
$69,492
2023
Average Male Salary
$74,453
2023
Average Female Salary
$52,279
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Car Dealers Industry Group are retail salespersons, automotive service technicians & mechanics, and firstline supervisors of retail sales workers. On average, full-time employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group work 45.6 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $74,719. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.1 hours and earn an average annual salary of $24,139.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group are Dallas County (Southwest)--Cedar Hill & Duncanville Cities PUMA, TX, Broward County (Southwest)--Pembroke Pines (West) City PUMA, FL, and Parker County PUMA, TX.

The workforce of Car Dealers Industry Group in 2023 was 1,253,255 people, with 22.4% woman, and 77.6% men.

In 2023, 70.9% of the workforce in the Car Dealers Industry Group was White (888,758 people), of which 22.9% were women and 77.1% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Car Dealers Industry Group.

The workforce in Car Dealers Industry Group was 1,253,255 people and is concentrated in Texas (125,608 workers). The average annual salary was $69,492, being $1,765 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

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1.52%
Year-over-year growth
Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 561k people employed in the Automobile Dealers industry. This represents a 1.52% 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 (126k), California (117k), and Florida (93.7k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Car Dealers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $69,492, $1,765 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.443
WAGE GINI

Car Dealers has a wage GINI of 0.443, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

Retail salespersons are the most common position with 257,824 workers, but the Car Dealers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Automotive service technicians & mechanics and Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers.

The highest average salary in Car Dealers goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Car Dealers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (257,824 people), automotive service technicians & mechanics (194,998 people), and firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (150,694 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$74,453
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$1,994
$52,279
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$2,576

On average, Male workers in the Car Dealers 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

The Car Dealers 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 Car Dealers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Car Dealers is from Retail Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Car Dealers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Car Dealers Industry Group is Construction.

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Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Car 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 Car 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 Car 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 Car Dealers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Car 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. Texas
    4,274
  2. California
    3,669
  3. Florida
    3,387

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Car Dealers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 22.4% corresponds to women and 77.6% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $74,453 and $52,279.

79% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

280,388
Women
22.4%
972,867
Men
77.6%

The workforce of Car Dealers industry in 2023 was 1,253,255 people, with 22.4% woman, and 77.6% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Car Dealers industry.

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Races

In 2023, 70.9% of the workforce in the Car Dealers industry was White (888,758 people), of which 22.9% were women and 77.1% men.

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

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Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Car Dealers workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (448,336 people), some college (372,601 people), and bachelors degree (168,523 people).

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