Office supplies & stationery stores

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Workforce

113k

2019 ACS Estimate

Average Employee Age

40.6

Average Salary

$40,364

Average Male Salary

$44,859

Average Female Salary

$44,363

About

The top three occupations in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Customer service representatives, and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers. On average, full-time employees in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group work 42.3 hours per week and have an average annual salary of $52,968. Part-time employees in the same industry work 21 hours and earn an average annual salary of $11,209.

The locations with the highest concentration of employees in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group are Greater Binghamton City & Greater Johnson City Village PUMA, NY, Wellington Village & Agricultural Reserve PUMA, FL, and Windham County PUMA, CT. The industry that purchases the most products or services from the Hospitals Industry Group is Office supplies & stationery stores.

Retail Trade

Workforce

A snapshot of jobs, wages, and opportunities in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group. Retail salespersons are the most common position, but the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group employs a relatively high number of Office machine operators, except computer, compared to other industries.

The highest average salary in Office supplies & stationery stores goes to Chief executives & legislators.

Monthly Employment

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

Start Year

Y-Axis

9.62%

Year-over-year growth

Employment change between May 2020 and May 2021

As of May 2021, there are 27.4M people employed in the Trade, Transportation, and Utilities industry. This represents a 9.62% increase in employment when compared to May 2020.

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

Occupations

Occupations by Share

113k

Workforce (ACS Estimate)

± 8.24k

−9.82%

1 Year Growth

± 11.2%

According to ACS estimates, the number of people employed in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group has been declining at a rate of −9.82%, , from 125k people in 2018 to 113k people in 2019.

The following graphic shows the share of employment in Office supplies & stationery stores by various occupations according to ACS estimates. Retail salespersons represent the largest share of positions held in Office supplies & stationery stores at 24.5%, followed by Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers with 10.8% and Cashiers with 7.78%.

Most Common

The most common occupations in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group, by number of employees, are Retail salespersons, Firstline supervisors of retail sales workers, Cashiers, Customer service representatives, and Driver/sales workers & truck drivers.

Most Specialized

Compared to other Industry Groups, Office supplies & stationery stores employs an unusually high number of Office machine operators, except computer, Computer, automated teller, & office machine repairers, and Printing press operators.

Highest Paid

The highest paid occupations in Office supplies & stationery stores, by average wage, are Chief executives & legislators, Accountants & auditors, and General & operations managers.

Wages

Average Salary

$40,364

AVERAGE WAGE

± $3,282

On average, employees in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group make $40,364 per year. This number makes Office supplies & stationery stores the 207 highest paying Industry Group in the United States out of a total of 269 Industry Groups.

Wage by Location

HIGHEST PAYING PUBLIC USE MICRODATA AREA

HIGHEST PAYING PUMAS

This map shows which public use microdata areas (PUMAs) pay the highest average salary to employees in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

Wage Distribution

0.479

WAGE GINI

Office supplies & stationery stores has a wage GINI of 0.479, which is more than than the national average of 0.478. In other words, wages are distributed less evenly in Office supplies & stationery stores (shown in red) in comparison to the national average for those wage buckets (shown in gray).

Opportunities

Spatial Concentration

Public Use Microdata Areas with RCA

This map shows the PUMAs in the United States that have revealed comparative advantage in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

These are locations that employ more people in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group than expected given both the size of that location's overall labor pool and the national size of the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

Diversity

Demographic information on the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group in the US. Male employees tend to earn more than Female employees, with average respective salaries of $44,859 and $44,363. So too tend to earn more than other races and ethnicities in this industry.

Composition by Sex

42.6k

FEMALE WORKFORCE

±5.07k

70.1k

MALE WORKFORCE

±6.5k

62.2% of workers in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group are Male, making them the more common sex in the workforce. This chart shows the sex breakdown of the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

Wage by Sex in Common Jobs

$44,859

AVERAGE MALE SALARY

±$4,518

$44,363

AVERAGE FEMALE SALARY

±$4,735

On average, Male workers in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group make 1.01 times more than their Female counterparts. This chart shows the sex-based wage disparity in the 5 most common occupations in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

Wage by Race & Ethnicity in Common Jobs

RACE OR ETHNICITY WITH THE HIGHEST AVERAGE SALARY

Asian
White
Two or More Races

On average, Asian employees in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group earn 1.13 times more than other races and ethnicities. This chart shows the race and ethnicity-based wage disparities in the 5 most common occupations in the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group.

Input/Output

Estimates of the sources of the costs and the purchasers of the products in the Office supplies & stationery 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. Professional and business services has the highest single input, by dollars, to the Office supplies & stationery stores Industry Group, and the largest industry purchasing services from the Office supplies & stationery 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.

Industrial Flow

The closest comparable data for Office supplies & stationery stores is from Retail Trade.

Intermediate Inputs

The closest comparable data for Office supplies & stationery stores is from Retail Trade.

HIGHEST INPUT INDUSTRY

The Office supplies & stationery 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 Office supplies & stationery stores is from Retail Trade.

LARGEST PURCHASING INDUSTRY

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

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