Arkansas · NAICS 455 · Annual, 2025

General Merchandise Retailers in Arkansas

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 455 in Arkansas, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, General Merchandise Retailers (NAICS 455) employed about 41,500 people in Arkansas across roughly 1,128 establishments, with average annual pay of $31,800.

Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Arkansas grew 5.5% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.5× as concentrated in Arkansas as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.52). Average pay in the industry is 48.0% below the all-industries average in Arkansas. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Arkansas are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 41,500Employment, 2025
  • 1,128Establishments
  • $31,800Avg. annual pay
  • 3.2%Share of Arkansas jobs
  • 1.52Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Arkansas, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 36,500 to 41,500.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 36,500; 2005 37,400; 2006 37,600; 2007 37,900; 2008 38,400; 2009 38,500; 2010 38,300; 2011 39,600; 2012 39,600; 2013 38,800; 2014 40,100; 2015 41,400; 2016 41,400; 2017 40,500; 2018 40,100; 2019 38,600; 2020 39,400; 2021 40,200; 2022 40,400; 2023 40,200; 2024 40,900; 2025 41,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202541,4991,128$31,804 1.5%pub.
202440,9011,115$29,530 1.8%pub.
202340,1851,066$28,748 0.5%pub.
202240,3931,016$27,799 0.4%pub.
202140,2451,225$27,346 2.3%est. · 0.42
202039,3541,207$25,697 2.0%est. · 0.47
201938,5891,214$24,103 3.7%est. · 0.49
201840,0671,193$23,561 1.0%est. · 0.46
201740,4761,132$22,863 2.2%est. · 0.48
201641,4021,103$22,089 0.0%est. · 0.16

† 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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General Merchandise Retailers in Arkansas, quarterly, at full depth

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