Nebraska · NAICS 44-45 · Annual, 2025

Retail Trade in Nebraska

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 44-45 in Nebraska, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Retail Trade (NAICS 44-45) employed about 103,400 people in Nebraska across roughly 6,749 establishments, with average annual pay of $37,840.

Employment in Retail Trade in Nebraska declined 3.4% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 40.0% below the all-industries average in Nebraska. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Nebraska are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 103,400Employment, 2025
  • 6,749Establishments
  • $37,840Avg. annual pay
  • 10.1%Share of Nebraska jobs
  • 1.02Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Retail Trade in Nebraska, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 106,900 to 103,400.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 106,900; 2005 107,300; 2006 106,800; 2007 107,900; 2008 108,000; 2009 104,800; 2010 104,600; 2011 105,000; 2012 105,800; 2013 106,600; 2014 108,300; 2015 110,200; 2016 110,600; 2017 109,400; 2018 108,000; 2019 105,500; 2020 101,600; 2021 104,700; 2022 105,100; 2023 104,800; 2024 104,300; 2025 103,400.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025103,3516,749$37,839 0.9%pub.
2024104,2936,825$36,527 0.4%pub.
2023104,7696,870$35,553 0.3%pub.
2022105,1196,919$34,841 0.4%pub.
2021104,7336,946$32,898 3.1%est. · 1.00
2020101,5576,781$31,184 3.8%est. · 1.00
2019105,5196,914$28,894 2.3%est. · 1.00
2018108,0136,941$27,785 1.3%est. · 1.00
2017109,4446,992$27,099 1.1%est. · 1.00
2016110,6387,086$26,343 0.4%est. · 1.00

† 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 · 9 shown

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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Retail Trade in Nebraska, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for retail trade in Nebraska. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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