Arkansas · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Arkansas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 53,800 people in Arkansas across roughly 8,597 establishments, with average annual pay of $91,730.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Arkansas grew 16.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 50.1% above the all-industries average in Arkansas. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 53,800. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arkansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 53,800Employment, 2025
- 8,597Establishments
- $91,730Avg. annual pay
- 4.1%Share of Arkansas jobs
- 1.06Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 45,900; 2005 47,600; 2006 47,900; 2007 48,200; 2008 48,500; 2009 47,000; 2010 46,400; 2011 46,700; 2012 47,300; 2013 46,900; 2014 46,700; 2015 47,200; 2016 46,200; 2017 46,900; 2018 47,300; 2019 47,500; 2020 46,300; 2021 47,700; 2022 51,000; 2023 52,500; 2024 53,200; 2025 53,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53,815 | 8,597 | $91,730 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 53,207 | 8,093 | $89,823 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 52,464 | 8,041 | $86,903 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 50,969 | 7,810 | $82,518 | 6.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 47,697 | 7,428 | $80,051 | 3.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 46,260 | 7,336 | $75,071 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2019 | 47,501 | 7,332 | $70,829 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2018 | 47,325 | 7,238 | $68,424 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 46,901 | 7,172 | $67,606 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 46,246 | 7,030 | $65,859 | 2.1% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of wholesale trade | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 423 | Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods | 29,398 | 54.6% | 1.03 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 20,837 | 38.7% | 1.13 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 3,580 | 6.7% | 0.96 | est. · 0.99 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Where these numbers come from
Reading these figures
The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.
How this figure was built
Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.
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Wholesale Trade in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Arkansas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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