Missouri · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in Missouri

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 125,700 people in Missouri across roughly 12,298 establishments, with average annual pay of $91,160.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Missouri grew 5.2% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 37.2% above the all-industries average in Missouri. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Missouri are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 125,700Employment, 2025
  • 12,298Establishments
  • $91,160Avg. annual pay
  • 4.3%Share of Missouri jobs
  • 1.12Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Missouri, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 119,500 to 125,700.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 119,500; 2005 121,900; 2006 122,600; 2007 124,900; 2008 125,300; 2009 118,200; 2010 116,500; 2011 116,300; 2012 117,600; 2013 118,600; 2014 121,000; 2015 120,400; 2016 120,400; 2017 121,100; 2018 121,200; 2019 123,500; 2020 120,100; 2021 121,500; 2022 125,500; 2023 127,300; 2024 127,800; 2025 125,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025125,69912,298$91,155 1.7%pub.
2024127,83312,243$88,738 0.4%pub.
2023127,28913,075$86,282 1.4%pub.
2022125,52113,056$84,383 3.3%pub.
2021121,50612,965$79,448 1.2%pub.
2020120,09013,349$74,478 2.8%pub.
2019123,52813,307$70,779 1.9%pub.
2018121,23213,121$70,075 0.1%pub.
2017121,14814,080$66,942 0.6%pub.
2016120,41813,766$65,328 0.0%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 Goods72,81357.9%1.15pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods43,62034.7%1.07pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers9,2657.4%1.12pub.

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 Missouri, quarterly, at full depth

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