Missouri · NAICS 423 · Annual, 2025
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Missouri
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 423 in Missouri, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423) employed about 72,800 people in Missouri across roughly 6,657 establishments, with average annual pay of $92,200.
Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Missouri grew 7.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 38.8% 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.
- 72,800Employment, 2025
- 6,657Establishments
- $92,200Avg. annual pay
- 2.5%Share of Missouri jobs
- 1.15Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 59,400; 2005 60,500; 2006 61,600; 2007 62,200; 2008 61,700; 2009 57,400; 2010 55,300; 2011 54,800; 2012 56,100; 2013 56,500; 2014 57,700; 2015 57,100; 2016 57,800; 2017 58,300; 2018 66,600; 2019 68,600; 2020 67,600; 2021 69,600; 2022 71,900; 2023 73,700; 2024 73,800; 2025 72,800.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 72,813 | 6,657 | $92,202 | 1.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 73,812 | 6,562 | $89,644 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 73,687 | 6,878 | $86,774 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 71,897 | 6,662 | $83,690 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 69,632 | 6,455 | $79,150 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 67,648 | 6,346 | $73,735 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 68,561 | 6,152 | $70,871 | 3.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 66,570 | 5,866 | $70,406 | 14.1% | pub. |
| 2017 | 58,329 | 4,377 | $61,558 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 57,834 | 4,279 | $59,975 | 1.4% | 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.
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Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Missouri, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for merchant wholesalers, durable goods in Missouri. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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