Furniture & home furnishings stores

Industry Group

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Workforce Population

527k

2021

Average Employee Age

42.5

2021

Average Salary

$44,858

2021

Average Male Salary

$51,744

2021

Average Female Salary

$37,003

2021

About

The top three occupations in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group are retail salespersons, firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, and driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group work 43.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $54,382. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21.6 hours and earn an average annual salary of $16,764.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group are Collier County (Northwest) PUMA, FL, Greater Fort Myers City PUMA, FL, and Greensboro City (South) PUMA, NC.

The workforce of Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group in 2021 was 526,775 people, with 46.7% woman, and 53.3% men.

In 2021, 73.5% of the workforce in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group was White (387,169 people), of which 48.7% were women and 51.3% men.

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Employment & Salaries

A snapshot of workforce, wages, and opportunities in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

The workforce in Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group was 526,775 people and is concentrated in California (56,676 workers). The average annual salary was $44,858, being $14,737 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 (56.7k), Texas (49k), and Florida (41.8k).

This map shows the states in the United States shaded by workforce for Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Yearly Wage Ranking

In 2021, Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group had an average annual wage of $44,858, $14,737 less than the average national salary of $59,596.

The graph shows the position of Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group in the ranking of industries by average annual wage.

Wage Distribution

0.45

WAGE GINI

Furniture & home furnishings stores has a wage GINI of 0.45, which is less than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed more evenly in Furniture & home furnishings stores (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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group workers compared to the entire workforce in the country.

Occupations

A review of jobs and wages in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Retail salespersons are the most common position with 145,199 workers, but the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

The highest average salary in Furniture & home furnishings stores goes to Textile machine setters, operators, and tenders.

Occupations Distribution

The graph shows the distribution of employees in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group according to occupations. In 2021, the occupations that concentrated the largest number of employees in this industry were retail salespersons (145,199 people), firstline supervisors of retail sales workers (88,085 people), and driver/sales workers & truck drivers (25,672 people)

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$51,744

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$2,591

$37,003

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$1,943

On average, Male workers in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group make 1.4 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

Business

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Furniture & home furnishings 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group.

The Furniture & home furnishings stores 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Furniture & home furnishings 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.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Furniture & home furnishings 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.

Use of Output by Other Industries

The closest comparable data for Furniture & home furnishings stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

The Construction Industry purchases the greatest share of products and services from the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group in order to produce other goods and services. Purchases of the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group for final consumption by consumers, businesses, or government are not included here.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Furniture & home furnishings stores Industry Group in the US.

Of the total workforce, 46.7% corresponds to women and 53.3% men. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $51,744 and $37,003.

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

Gender and Age

246,084

Women

46.7%

280,691

Men

53.3%

The workforce of Furniture & home furnishings stores industry in 2021 was 526,775 people, with 46.7% woman, and 53.3% men.

The visualization shows the distribution of the workforce by gender and age in Furniture & home furnishings stores industry.

Races

In 2021, 73.5% of the workforce in the Furniture & home furnishings stores industry was White (387,169 people), of which 48.7% were women and 51.3% 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 Furniture & home furnishings stores workers in 2021 were high school or equivalent (156,055 people), some college (141,514 people), and bachelors degree (112,299 people).

The chart shows the Furniture & home furnishings stores workforce by gender and educational level.