Georgia · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in Georgia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Georgia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 226,400 people in Georgia across roughly 21,135 establishments, with average annual pay of $101,720.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Georgia grew 9.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.3% above the all-industries average in Georgia. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Georgia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 226,400Employment, 2025
  • 21,135Establishments
  • $101,720Avg. annual pay
  • 4.6%Share of Georgia jobs
  • 1.19Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Georgia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 206,900 to 226,400.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 206,900; 2005 212,300; 2006 215,600; 2007 219,700; 2008 217,100; 2009 199,200; 2010 196,300; 2011 197,400; 2012 201,000; 2013 204,500; 2014 209,100; 2015 216,400; 2016 218,200; 2017 220,400; 2018 214,800; 2019 217,200; 2020 207,700; 2021 210,400; 2022 222,000; 2023 226,700; 2024 228,000; 2025 226,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025226,42021,135$101,715 0.7%pub.
2024228,02521,538$99,246 0.6%pub.
2023226,69821,001$95,419 2.1%pub.
2022222,02722,518$93,083 5.5%pub.
2021210,43022,210$88,216 1.3%pub.
2020207,67121,872$82,265 4.4%pub.
2019217,15821,210$79,516 1.1%pub.
2018214,84321,005$76,559 2.5%pub.
2017220,36120,622$76,627 1.0%pub.
2016218,17223,566$75,226 0.8%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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of wholesale tradeLQSource
423Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods123,23954.4%1.15pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods64,88228.7%0.94pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers38,29916.9%2.74pub.

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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Wholesale Trade in Georgia, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Georgia. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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