Iowa · NAICS 423 · Annual, 2025
Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Iowa
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 423 in Iowa, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods (NAICS 423) employed about 35,200 people in Iowa across roughly 4,037 establishments, with average annual pay of $86,530.
Employment in Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Iowa grew 7.7% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 36.4% above the all-industries average in Iowa. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Iowa are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 35,200Employment, 2025
- 4,037Establishments
- $86,530Avg. annual pay
- 2.3%Share of Iowa jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 28,900; 2005 29,600; 2006 30,000; 2007 30,400; 2008 30,800; 2009 29,600; 2010 29,200; 2011 30,000; 2012 31,500; 2013 31,900; 2014 31,200; 2015 30,900; 2016 30,100; 2017 30,100; 2018 32,500; 2019 33,300; 2020 32,700; 2021 33,000; 2022 34,300; 2023 35,300; 2024 35,400; 2025 35,200.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35,219 | 4,037 | $86,532 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2024 | 35,442 | 3,986 | $84,429 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2023 | 35,301 | 3,954 | $82,770 | 2.9% | pub. |
| 2022 | 34,297 | 3,884 | $79,027 | 3.8% | pub. |
| 2021 | 33,047 | 3,720 | $73,520 | 1.0% | pub. |
| 2020 | 32,706 | 3,663 | $67,850 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2019 | 33,292 | 3,566 | $65,060 | 2.5% | pub. |
| 2018 | 32,478 | 3,441 | $64,078 | 7.8% | pub. |
| 2017 | 30,118 | 2,619 | $58,726 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 30,134 | 2,621 | $57,048 | 2.3% | 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.
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Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods in Iowa, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for merchant wholesalers, durable goods in Iowa. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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