Building material & supplies dealers

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

1.06M

2021

Average Employee Age

41.9

2021

Average Salary

$41,626

2021

Average Male Salary

$45,182

2021

Average Female Salary

$33,852

2021

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 42.9 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $50,574. Part-time employees in the same industry work 23 hours and earn an average annual salary of $15,521.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group are Eau Claire & Chippewa (South) Counties PUMA, WI, Mooresville Town & Statesville City PUMA, NC, and Surry, Wilkes & Alleghany Counties PUMA, NC.

The workforce of Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in 2021 was 1,059,695 people, with 31.4% woman, and 68.6% men.

In 2021, 75% of the workforce in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group was White (794,338 people), of which 30.8% were women and 69.2% 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 1,059,695 people and is concentrated in California (99,821 workers). The average annual salary was $41,626, being $17,970 less than the national average salary, which was $59,596.

Monthly Employment

Showing data for the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry sector.

Start Year

Y-Axis

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.

This chart shows monthly employment numbers for Trade, Transportation, and Utilities over time (non-seasonally adjusted).

Employment by Location

The states that concentrated the largest workforce in 2021 were California (99.8k), Texas (90.2k), and Florida (77k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group had an average annual wage of $41,626, $17,970 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.441

WAGE GINI

Building material & supplies dealers has a wage GINI of 0.441, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. 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).

The graphic shows the distribution of average salaries by buckets for Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Building material & supplies dealers Industry Group.

Retail salespersons are the most common position with 274,944 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 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (274,944 people), firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (139,475 people), and customer service representatives (88,845 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$45,182

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$1,501

$33,852

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,468

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.

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.

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.

Intermediate Inputs

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

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

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

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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.

Diversity

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

Of the total workforce, 31.4% corresponds to women and 68.6% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $45,182 and $33,852.

80% of workers have a high school or equivalent, some college or bachelors degree.

Gender and Age

332,631

Women

31.4%

727,064

Men

68.6%

The workforce of Building material & supplies dealers industry in 2021 was 1,059,695 people, with 31.4% woman, and 68.6% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Building material & supplies dealers industry.

Races

In 2021, 75% of the workforce in the Building material & supplies dealers industry was White (794,338 people), of which 30.8% were women and 69.2% men.

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

Educational Levels

The main educational levels achieved by the Building material & supplies dealers workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (362,826 people), some college (321,553 people), and bachelors degree (163,198 people).

The chart shows the Building material & supplies dealers workforce by gender and educational level.