South Carolina · NAICS 458 · Annual, 2025

Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 458 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers (NAICS 458) employed about 18,100 people in South Carolina across roughly 2,235 establishments, with average annual pay of $28,780.

Employment in Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers in South Carolina declined 17.9% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 54.9% below the all-industries average in South Carolina. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 18,100Employment, 2025
  • 2,235Establishments
  • $28,780Avg. annual pay
  • 0.8%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 1.06Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 22,000 to 18,100.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 22,000; 2005 22,200; 2006 23,300; 2007 24,200; 2008 22,000; 2009 20,200; 2010 20,200; 2011 19,400; 2012 19,800; 2013 20,100; 2014 20,300; 2015 19,800; 2016 19,800; 2017 21,700; 2018 22,000; 2019 21,700; 2020 17,300; 2021 16,600; 2022 17,500; 2023 17,900; 2024 17,800; 2025 18,100.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202518,0742,235$28,780 1.7%pub.
202417,7652,273$27,301 0.6%pub.
202317,8672,186$26,596 2.1%pub.
202217,5022,156$25,409 5.1%pub.
202116,6492,106$24,124 3.7%pub.
202017,2942,159$22,756 20.4%pub.
201921,7372,171$19,878 1.0%pub.
201821,9522,120$18,885 1.2%pub.
201721,7002,144$18,402 9.8%pub.
201619,7532,132$17,869 0.5%pub.

† 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.

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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Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

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