North Dakota · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in North Dakota

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 24,200 people in North Dakota across roughly 2,906 establishments, with average annual pay of $89,460.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in North Dakota grew 31.6% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in North Dakota as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.45). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for North Dakota are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 24,200Employment, 2025
  • 2,906Establishments
  • $89,460Avg. annual pay
  • 5.6%Share of North Dakota jobs
  • 1.45Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in North Dakota, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 18,400 to 24,200.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 18,400; 2005 18,800; 2006 19,100; 2007 19,300; 2008 19,900; 2009 20,200; 2010 21,100; 2011 22,700; 2012 25,100; 2013 26,400; 2014 27,300; 2015 26,700; 2016 24,400; 2017 23,900; 2018 23,900; 2019 24,300; 2020 23,100; 2021 22,600; 2022 23,100; 2023 23,900; 2024 24,500; 2025 24,200.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202524,1772,906$89,456 1.4%pub.
202424,5202,926$87,810 2.7%pub.
202323,8672,879$85,674 3.5%pub.
202223,0502,821$80,517 1.8%pub.
202122,6402,765$74,696 1.9%est. · 1.00
202023,0902,795$71,144 4.8%est. · 1.00
201924,2532,794$70,287 1.5%est. · 1.00
201823,8972,796$68,065 0.2%est. · 1.00
201723,9342,781$65,087 2.0%est. · 1.00
201624,4282,791$62,733 8.4%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 · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of wholesale tradeLQSource
423Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods12,51451.8%1.33pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods11,32346.8%1.87est. · 1.00
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers3401.4%0.28est. · 0.99

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

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 North Dakota, quarterly, at full depth

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

County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.