North Carolina · NAICS 423 · Annual, 2025
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in North Carolina
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 423 in North Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423) employed about 119,900 people in North Carolina across roughly 13,933 establishments, with average annual pay of $105,520.
Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in North Carolina grew 15.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 47.5% above the all-industries average in North Carolina. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 119,900Employment, 2025
- 13,933Establishments
- $105,520Avg. annual pay
- 2.4%Share of North Carolina jobs
- 1.11Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 89,000; 2005 90,000; 2006 93,000; 2007 94,200; 2008 93,000; 2009 82,900; 2010 79,700; 2011 82,100; 2012 84,300; 2013 85,300; 2014 88,300; 2015 89,600; 2016 91,300; 2017 94,000; 2018 100,500; 2019 105,300; 2020 103,800; 2021 108,800; 2022 116,800; 2023 120,100; 2024 119,900; 2025 119,900.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 119,921 | 13,933 | $105,524 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 119,853 | 14,090 | $101,256 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2023 | 120,136 | 14,170 | $96,763 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 116,770 | 13,327 | $92,874 | 7.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 108,812 | 12,023 | $87,889 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 103,836 | 11,296 | $81,630 | 1.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 105,349 | 10,860 | $77,854 | 4.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 100,520 | 10,398 | $75,491 | 7.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 93,976 | 8,962 | $71,544 | 3.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 91,253 | 8,686 | $68,311 | 1.8% | est. · 1.00 |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 North Carolina, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for merchant wholesalers, durable goods in North Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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