Tennessee · NAICS 423 · Annual, 2025
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Tennessee
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 423 in Tennessee, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423) employed about 81,000 people in Tennessee across roughly 8,593 establishments, with average annual pay of $101,360.
Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Tennessee grew 16.6% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 44.0% above the all-industries average in Tennessee. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 81,000. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Tennessee are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 81,000Employment, 2025
- 8,593Establishments
- $101,360Avg. annual pay
- 2.5%Share of Tennessee jobs
- 1.14Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 65,300; 2005 67,300; 2006 68,800; 2007 69,500; 2008 68,500; 2009 60,700; 2010 58,500; 2011 59,200; 2012 61,000; 2013 62,200; 2014 62,900; 2015 62,600; 2016 62,200; 2017 63,400; 2018 69,600; 2019 71,300; 2020 69,500; 2021 71,000; 2022 76,000; 2023 78,600; 2024 80,500; 2025 81,000.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 81,014 | 8,593 | $101,356 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 80,506 | 9,179 | $96,750 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 78,635 | 8,918 | $93,575 | 3.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 76,037 | 8,436 | $89,804 | 7.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 71,006 | 7,720 | $83,722 | 2.1% | pub. |
| 2020 | 69,510 | 7,460 | $76,836 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 71,294 | 7,296 | $73,424 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 69,561 | 7,151 | $72,308 | 9.7% | pub. |
| 2017 | 63,421 | 5,758 | $68,078 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2016 | 62,161 | 5,248 | $65,514 | 0.7% | pub. |
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.
Notes
Data Tactical Group is an independent company and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any federal agency.
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Tennessee, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for merchant wholesalers, durable goods in Tennessee. 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.