Minnesota · NAICS 455 · Annual, 2025
General Merchandise Retailers in Minnesota
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 455 in Minnesota, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, General Merchandise Retailers (NAICS 455) employed about 63,600 people in Minnesota across roughly 1,335 establishments, with average annual pay of $34,660.
Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Minnesota was essentially flat from 2004 to 2025 (+1.2%). Average pay in the industry is 55.0% below the all-industries average in Minnesota. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Minnesota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 63,600Employment, 2025
- 1,335Establishments
- $34,660Avg. annual pay
- 2.2%Share of Minnesota jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 62,900; 2005 65,300; 2006 65,500; 2007 67,600; 2008 66,700; 2009 65,900; 2010 65,800; 2011 67,700; 2012 67,200; 2013 66,600; 2014 65,600; 2015 66,000; 2016 66,200; 2017 65,700; 2018 66,300; 2019 62,900; 2020 61,100; 2021 63,000; 2022 61,600; 2023 62,700; 2024 64,400; 2025 63,600.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63,631 | 1,335 | $34,663 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 64,404 | 1,310 | $33,021 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2023 | 62,701 | 1,265 | $31,884 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 61,557 | 1,217 | $31,197 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 63,006 | 1,664 | $30,732 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 61,062 | 1,674 | $28,861 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2019 | 62,911 | 1,664 | $26,765 | 5.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 66,258 | 1,709 | $26,552 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 65,697 | 1,661 | $25,688 | 0.8% | pub. |
| 2016 | 66,228 | 1,603 | $24,922 | 0.3% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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.
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General Merchandise Retailers in Minnesota, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for general merchandise retailers in Minnesota. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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