Kansas · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in Kansas

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 58,100 people in Kansas across roughly 7,225 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,760.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Kansas declined 2.9% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 46.7% above the all-industries average in Kansas. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Kansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 58,100Employment, 2025
  • 7,225Establishments
  • $92,760Avg. annual pay
  • 4.1%Share of Kansas jobs
  • 1.05Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Kansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 59,800 to 58,100.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 59,800; 2005 59,600; 2006 60,100; 2007 61,600; 2008 63,000; 2009 60,900; 2010 59,700; 2011 59,500; 2012 59,000; 2013 60,000; 2014 61,400; 2015 60,300; 2016 59,700; 2017 59,600; 2018 59,100; 2019 58,000; 2020 56,000; 2021 55,900; 2022 58,100; 2023 59,300; 2024 59,100; 2025 58,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202558,1337,225$92,758 1.6%pub.
202459,0867,601$89,120 0.4%pub.
202359,3277,510$86,516 2.2%pub.
202258,0527,376$83,776 3.8%pub.
202155,9107,433$79,506 0.2%pub.
202056,0447,500$75,220 3.4%pub.
201958,0307,723$72,632 1.9%pub.
201859,1418,031$70,114 0.7%pub.
201759,5758,118$66,999 0.3%pub.
201659,7268,219$65,037 0.9%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 Goods31,27853.8%1.00pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods22,80239.2%1.13pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers4,0537.0%0.99pub.

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 Kansas, quarterly, at full depth

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