New York · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in New York

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 305,800 people in New York across roughly 32,232 establishments, with average annual pay of $116,750.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in New York declined 13.2% from 2004 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New York are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 305,800Employment, 2025
  • 32,232Establishments
  • $116,750Avg. annual pay
  • 3.1%Share of New York jobs
  • 0.81Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in New York, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 352,200 to 305,800.0100K200K300K400K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 352,200; 2005 351,700; 2006 351,800; 2007 355,700; 2008 351,600; 2009 329,700; 2010 324,600; 2011 330,200; 2012 333,600; 2013 335,000; 2014 336,800; 2015 339,600; 2016 336,500; 2017 338,000; 2018 329,800; 2019 326,000; 2020 294,500; 2021 294,700; 2022 308,400; 2023 311,100; 2024 309,300; 2025 305,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025305,78132,232$116,752 1.1%pub.
2024309,34432,433$111,574 0.6%pub.
2023311,11832,254$107,973 0.9%pub.
2022308,40131,544$104,896 4.7%pub.
2021294,67532,066$100,642 0.1%pub.
2020294,48333,648$94,438 9.7%pub.
2019325,96934,156$88,619 1.2%pub.
2018329,82035,248$86,405 2.4%pub.
2017338,02936,239$84,469 0.5%pub.
2016336,46135,027$82,809 0.9%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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of wholesale tradeLQSource
423Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods150,21349.1%0.70pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods140,08845.8%1.02pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers15,4815.1%0.55pub.

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 New York, quarterly, at full depth

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

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