Kansas · NAICS 455 · Annual, 2025
General Merchandise Retailers in Kansas
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 455 in Kansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, General Merchandise Retailers (NAICS 455) employed about 32,100 people in Kansas across roughly 748 establishments, with average annual pay of $30,870.
Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Kansas grew 6.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 51.2% below 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.
- 32,100Employment, 2025
- 748Establishments
- $30,870Avg. annual pay
- 2.2%Share of Kansas jobs
- 1.07Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 37,500; 2005 37,200; 2006 35,800; 2007 35,800; 2008 34,100; 2009 33,400; 2010 33,200; 2011 33,900; 2012 33,300; 2013 32,500; 2014 32,600; 2015 32,700; 2016 33,200; 2017 32,100; 2018 31,600; 2019 30,600; 2020 30,300; 2021 31,100; 2022 30,100; 2023 31,400; 2024 32,000; 2025 32,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32,122 | 748 | $30,866 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 32,035 | 742 | $29,312 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 31,408 | 742 | $28,872 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 30,074 | 719 | $28,456 | 3.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 31,057 | 884 | $27,483 | 2.6% | est. · 0.24 |
| 2020 | 30,258 | 853 | $26,078 | 1.2% | est. · 0.24 |
| 2019 | 30,628 | 837 | $24,631 | 2.9% | est. · 0.27 |
| 2018 | 31,560 | 830 | $24,062 | 1.8% | est. · 0.27 |
| 2017 | 32,137 | 825 | $23,195 | 3.1% | est. · 0.28 |
| 2016 | 33,161 | 828 | $22,283 | 1.5% | est. · 0.13 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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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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General Merchandise Retailers in Kansas, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for general merchandise retailers in Kansas. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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