Washington · NAICS 425 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (NAICS 425) employed about 11,700 people in Washington across roughly 2,298 establishments, with average annual pay of $173,260.

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington declined 10.4% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 73.9% above the all-industries average in Washington. Employment fell 50.1% from 2014 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Washington are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 11,700Employment, 2025
  • 2,298Establishments
  • $173,260Avg. annual pay
  • 0.3%Share of Washington jobs
  • 1.13Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 9,950 to 11,700.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 9,950; 2005 12,100; 2006 12,200; 2007 13,000; 2008 14,600; 2009 15,900; 2010 17,500; 2011 19,600; 2012 20,800; 2013 21,800; 2014 23,400; 2015 23,000; 2016 22,200; 2017 21,600; 2018 18,900; 2019 17,400; 2020 16,300; 2021 14,300; 2022 14,500; 2023 14,100; 2024 13,000; 2025 11,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202511,6762,298$173,257 10.4%pub.
202413,0322,459$172,315 7.6%pub.
202314,1072,660$140,526 2.4%pub.
202214,4553,090$135,048 0.9%pub.
202114,3283,374$136,572 11.9%pub.
202016,2713,681$124,725 6.5%pub.
201917,4104,028$108,396 7.6%pub.
201818,8514,544$107,181 12.9%pub.
201721,6435,411$102,018 2.3%pub.
201622,1515,791$98,486 3.9%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.

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 Washington, quarterly, at full depth

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