Hawaii · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Hawaii
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Hawaii, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 17,100 people in Hawaii across roughly 2,143 establishments, with average annual pay of $79,660.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Hawaii was essentially flat from 2004 to 2025 (+0.2%). The industry is less concentrated in Hawaii than in the nation as a whole (location quotient 0.68). Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Hawaii are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 17,100Employment, 2025
- 2,143Establishments
- $79,660Avg. annual pay
- 2.6%Share of Hawaii jobs
- 0.68Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 17,100; 2005 17,600; 2006 17,900; 2007 18,400; 2008 18,800; 2009 17,800; 2010 17,700; 2011 17,500; 2012 17,700; 2013 17,700; 2014 17,700; 2015 18,000; 2016 17,800; 2017 17,900; 2018 17,800; 2019 18,300; 2020 16,400; 2021 16,400; 2022 17,200; 2023 17,200; 2024 17,200; 2025 17,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17,094 | 2,143 | $79,658 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2024 | 17,189 | 2,155 | $77,045 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2023 | 17,241 | 2,114 | $74,319 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2022 | 17,154 | 2,078 | $71,420 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2021 | 16,436 | 2,067 | $68,649 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 16,383 | 2,061 | $63,604 | 10.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 18,285 | 2,088 | $61,816 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 17,833 | 2,053 | $59,653 | 0.5% | pub. |
| 2017 | 17,919 | 2,050 | $60,239 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2016 | 17,820 | 2,087 | $57,559 | 1.0% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
By subsector, 2025
3-digit NAICS · 3 shown
| Code | Subsector | Employment | Share of wholesale trade | LQ | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 423 | Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods | 6,313 | 36.9% | 0.45 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 10,123 | 59.2% | 1.12 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 659 | 3.9% | 0.36 | pub. |
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.
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Wholesale Trade in Hawaii, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Hawaii. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
County figures, file export and the API are on paid plans.