California · NAICS 425 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in California

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

In 2025, Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (NAICS 425) employed about 32,700 people in California across roughly 7,834 establishments, with average annual pay of $120,720.

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in California declined 12.1% from 2024 to 2025. The industry is less concentrated in California than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.63). Employment fell 69.6% from 2013 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for California are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 32,700Employment, 2025
  • 7,834Establishments
  • $120,720Avg. annual pay
  • 0.2%Share of California jobs
  • 0.63Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in California, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 82,400 to 32,700.050K100K150K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 82,400; 2005 91,000; 2006 102,800; 2007 106,900; 2008 104,600; 2009 92,700; 2010 91,600; 2011 94,800; 2012 103,400; 2013 107,700; 2014 107,100; 2015 103,500; 2016 98,400; 2017 91,900; 2018 45,400; 2019 44,000; 2020 40,000; 2021 40,500; 2022 42,900; 2023 40,200; 2024 37,200; 2025 32,700.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202532,7067,834$120,723 12.1%pub.
202437,2037,984$115,932 7.5%pub.
202340,2098,583$117,501 6.4%pub.
202242,9479,040$116,153 5.9%pub.
202140,5339,095$109,481 1.3%pub.
202040,0078,894$104,678 9.2%pub.
201944,0369,272$98,201 2.9%pub.
201845,3509,581$93,536 50.6%pub.
201791,90111,689$94,055 6.7%pub.
201698,44812,568$91,179 4.9%pub.

† 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 California, quarterly, at full depth

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