Texas · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in Texas

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 651,000 people in Texas across roughly 48,034 establishments, with average annual pay of $112,910.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Texas grew 10.3% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 44.8% above the all-industries average in Texas. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Texas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 651,000Employment, 2025
  • 48,034Establishments
  • $112,910Avg. annual pay
  • 4.6%Share of Texas jobs
  • 1.19Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in Texas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 463,700 to 651,000.0200K400K600K800K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 463,700; 2005 476,200; 2006 498,900; 2007 519,300; 2008 529,900; 2009 498,900; 2010 497,400; 2011 515,500; 2012 541,000; 2013 560,500; 2014 577,500; 2015 594,700; 2016 580,600; 2017 587,900; 2018 595,800; 2019 609,000; 2020 590,300; 2021 593,700; 2022 636,500; 2023 660,300; 2024 655,600; 2025 651,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025650,97348,034$112,908 0.7%pub.
2024655,63148,602$108,641 0.7%pub.
2023660,25649,037$106,078 3.7%pub.
2022636,49648,795$101,568 7.2%pub.
2021593,69648,073$95,898 0.6%pub.
2020590,28547,585$89,699 3.1%est. · 1.00
2019609,00047,297$86,434 2.2%est. · 1.00
2018595,78246,553$83,404 1.3%est. · 1.00
2017587,93846,482$79,945 1.3%est. · 1.00
2016580,55946,327$78,076 2.4%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 Goods399,73961.4%1.30pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods206,22031.7%1.04pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers45,0136.9%1.12pub.

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 Texas, quarterly, at full depth

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