Massachusetts · NAICS 423 · Annual, 2025

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Massachusetts

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 423 in Massachusetts, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423) employed about 65,100 people in Massachusetts across roughly 7,096 establishments, with average annual pay of $139,450.

Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Massachusetts grew 2.4% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.3% above the all-industries average in Massachusetts. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Massachusetts are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 65,100Employment, 2025
  • 7,096Establishments
  • $139,450Avg. annual pay
  • 1.8%Share of Massachusetts jobs
  • 0.82Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Massachusetts, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 63,600 to 65,100.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 63,600; 2005 62,600; 2006 63,100; 2007 62,300; 2008 60,900; 2009 56,000; 2010 53,200; 2011 53,200; 2012 52,500; 2013 53,100; 2014 53,900; 2015 55,200; 2016 56,500; 2017 57,600; 2018 65,400; 2019 66,000; 2020 62,800; 2021 64,300; 2022 67,400; 2023 68,100; 2024 66,600; 2025 65,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202565,1017,096$139,453 2.2%pub.
202466,5676,929$133,575 2.3%pub.
202368,1387,105$126,527 1.1%pub.
202267,3937,073$124,285 4.8%pub.
202164,2916,769$126,554 2.4%pub.
202062,7886,343$110,089 4.8%pub.
201965,9596,271$104,874 0.9%pub.
201865,3766,208$101,964 13.5%pub.
201757,6184,377$94,911 1.9%pub.
201656,5434,230$91,254 2.5%pub.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

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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Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Massachusetts, quarterly, at full depth

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