United States · NAICS 425 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in the United States

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 425 in the United States, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (NAICS 425) employed about 444,800 people in the United States across roughly 108,398 establishments, with average annual pay of $134,210.

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in the United States declined 9.6% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 70.5% above the all-industries average in the United States. Employment fell 51.2% from 2015 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for the United States are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 444,800Employment, 2025
  • 108,398Establishments
  • $134,210Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of U.S. jobs

The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in the United States, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 700,400 to 444,800.0250K500K750K1M20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 700,400; 2005 742,700; 2006 786,000; 2007 832,700; 2008 849,600; 2009 805,200; 2010 812,600; 2011 842,100; 2012 875,000; 2013 891,200; 2014 896,400; 2015 911,700; 2016 899,500; 2017 891,200; 2018 545,300; 2019 530,000; 2020 491,400; 2021 494,300; 2022 516,800; 2023 511,700; 2024 491,700; 2025 444,800.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025444,796108,398$134,213 9.6%est. · 1.00
2024491,745116,111$129,034 3.9%est. · 1.00
2023511,724122,466$125,894 1.0%est. · 1.00
2022516,847129,510$121,672 4.6%est. · 1.00
2021494,288132,796$116,785 0.6%est. · 1.00
2020491,428138,474$108,103 7.3%est. · 1.00
2019530,008145,853$101,417 2.8%est. · 1.00
2018545,328154,535$96,724 38.8%est. · 1.00
2017891,236215,462$99,550 0.9%est. · 1.00
2016899,464223,562$96,371 1.3%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.

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 Agents and Brokers in the United States, quarterly, at full depth

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