Recyclable material merchant wholesalers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population
68.2k
2023
Average Employee Age
44.3
2023
Average Salary
$58,358
2023
Average Male Salary
$60,130
2023
Average Female Salary
$49,844
2023

About

The top three occupations in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group are laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand, firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers, and driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group work 44.2 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $61,259. Part-time employees in the same industry work 20.4 hours and earn an average annual salary of $33,598.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group are Lawrence & Beaver (North) Counties--New Castle City PUMA, PA, Sussex West PUMA, DE, and Calhoun County PUMA, AL.

The workforce of Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group in 2023 was 68,205 people, with 17.2% woman, and 82.8% men.

In 2023, 70.1% of the workforce in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group was White (47,786 people), of which 17.1% were women and 82.9% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The workforce in Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group was 68,205 people and is concentrated in Texas (6,690 workers). The average annual salary was $58,358, being $9,369 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 Texas (6.69k), California (5.32k), and Ohio (3.87k).

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Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2023, Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $58,358, $9,369 less than the average national salary of $67,727.

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Wage Distribution

0.428
WAGE GINI

Recyclable material merchant wholesalers has a wage GINI of 0.428, which is less than than the national average of 0.476. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Recyclable material 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 Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand are the most common position with 9,848 workers, but the Recyclable material 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 Recyclable material merchant wholesalers goes to Human resources managers.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group according to occupations. In 2023, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were laborers & freight, stock, & material movers, hand (9,848 people), firstline supervisors of nonretail sales workers (8,010 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (5,758 people)

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Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$60,130
AVERAGE MALE SALARY
±$7,696
$49,844
AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY
±$11,432

On average, Male workers in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group make 1.21 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

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Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Recyclable material 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 Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

The Recyclable material 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.

California and Texas stand out as the states with the largest number of establishments in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group.

Industrial Flow

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Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group is Manufacturing.

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Intermediate Inputs

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

The Recyclable material 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 Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Recyclable material 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. California
    923
  2. Texas
    746
  3. New York
    417

The charts shows the distribution of establishments in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers industry by states and the number of establishments according to size.

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Diversity

Demographic information on the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 17.2% corresponds to women and 82.8% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $60,130 and $49,844.

72.2% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or secondary education.

Gender and Age

11,751
Women
17.2%
56,454
Men
82.8%

The workforce of Recyclable material merchant wholesalers industry in 2023 was 68,205 people, with 17.2% woman, and 82.8% men.

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Races

In 2023, 70.1% of the workforce in the Recyclable material merchant wholesalers industry was White (47,786 people), of which 17.1% were women and 82.9% 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 Recyclable material merchant wholesalers workers in 2023 were high school or equivalent (27,792 people), some college (11,820 people), and secondary education (9,633 people).

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