Nevada · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Nevada
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Nevada, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 42,700 people in Nevada across roughly 4,989 establishments, with average annual pay of $106,090.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Nevada grew 18.3% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in Nevada than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.70). Average pay in the industry is 52.1% above the all-industries average in Nevada. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Nevada are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 42,700Employment, 2025
- 4,989Establishments
- $106,090Avg. annual pay
- 2.7%Share of Nevada jobs
- 0.70Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 35,500; 2005 37,400; 2006 39,000; 2007 39,600; 2008 39,100; 2009 35,000; 2010 33,000; 2011 32,800; 2012 32,700; 2013 32,900; 2014 34,000; 2015 34,500; 2016 34,600; 2017 36,100; 2018 37,200; 2019 38,600; 2020 36,100; 2021 37,700; 2022 40,900; 2023 42,400; 2024 42,200; 2025 42,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42,717 | 4,989 | $106,093 | 1.2% | pub. |
| 2024 | 42,203 | 4,901 | $100,710 | 0.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 42,405 | 5,096 | $94,744 | 3.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 40,888 | 5,159 | $90,629 | 8.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 37,736 | 4,767 | $86,801 | 4.5% | pub. |
| 2020 | 36,123 | 4,896 | $82,155 | 6.3% | pub. |
| 2019 | 38,552 | 5,092 | $77,355 | 3.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 37,232 | 5,061 | $77,567 | 3.2% | pub. |
| 2017 | 36,083 | 5,084 | $75,470 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 34,556 | 5,327 | $71,329 | 0.3% | 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
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of wholesale trade | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 423 | Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods | 26,014 | 60.9% | 0.76 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 14,547 | 34.1% | 0.66 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 2,156 | 5.1% | 0.48 | pub. |
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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Wholesale Trade in Nevada, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Nevada. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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