Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers

About

The top three occupations in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics. On average, full-time employees in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.5 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $85,103. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.9 hours and earn an average annual salary of $40,347.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Kane County (West) PUMA, IL, Permian Basin Regional Planning Commission (Central)--Ector County, Odessa City PUMA, TX, and Harris County (Northwest)--South of US-290 & West of TX-6 PUMA, TX.

The workforce of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2023 was 391,531 people, with 24.4% woman, and 75.6% men.

In 2023, 80.3% of the workforce in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (314,578 people), of which 23.1% were women and 76.9% men.

Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 391,531 people and is concentrated in Texas (44,447 workers). The average annual salary was $81,846, being $14,119 more than the national average salary, which was $67,727.

Monthly Employment

Start Year

Y-Axis

5.12%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between February 2022 and February 2023

As of February 2023, there are 249k people employed in the Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers industry. This represents a 5.12% increase in employment when compared to February 2022.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2023 were Texas (44.4k), California (31.9k), and Florida (23.6k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $81,846, $14,119 more than the average national salary of $67,727.

The graph shows the position of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.389

WAGE GINI

Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.389, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Sales representatives, wholesale & manufacturing are the most common position with 79,617 workers, but the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers and Heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics.

The highest average salary in Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers goes to Other financial clerks.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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 (79,617 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (46,763 people), and heavy vehicle & mobile equipment service technicians & mechanics (21,319 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$88,567

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$3,705

$61,050

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$4,042

On average, Male workers in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.45 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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 Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

Professional and business services
Finance, insurance, real estate, rental, and leasing
Transportation and warehousing

The Machinery, equipment, & supplies 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers is from Wholesale Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

Establishments

States with more establishments in 2022

Texas
6,252
California
5,504
Florida
3,771

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 24.4% corresponds to women and 75.6% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $88,567 and $61,050.

77.8% of workers have a high school or equivalent, bachelors degree or some college.

Gender and Age

95,634

Women

24.4%

295,897

Men

75.6%

The workforce of Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry in 2023 was 391,531 people, with 24.4% woman, and 75.6% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry.

Races

In 2023, 80.3% of the workforce in the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers industry was White (314,578 people), of which 23.1% were women and 76.9% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (113,011 people), bachelors degree (96,272 people), and some college (95,321 people).

The chart shows the Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers workforce by gender and educational level.