Michigan · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Michigan
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Michigan, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 176,100 people in Michigan across roughly 14,429 establishments, with average annual pay of $98,840.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Michigan grew 9.5% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 39.6% above the all-industries average in Michigan. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Michigan are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 176,100Employment, 2025
- 14,429Establishments
- $98,840Avg. annual pay
- 4.0%Share of Michigan jobs
- 1.03Location quotient
The 2025 figures above are a DTG estimate: Estimated · 1.00. † Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 169,400; 2005 169,200; 2006 169,000; 2007 166,900; 2008 164,900; 2009 151,100; 2010 149,800; 2011 154,500; 2012 158,900; 2013 163,300; 2014 167,300; 2015 169,400; 2016 171,700; 2017 172,400; 2018 171,500; 2019 171,200; 2020 160,800; 2021 164,600; 2022 171,100; 2023 175,600; 2024 177,600; 2025 176,100.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176,097 | 14,429 | $98,844 | 0.8% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 177,550 | 13,877 | $95,766 | 1.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 175,567 | 14,982 | $93,866 | 2.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2022 | 171,127 | 14,006 | $89,990 | 3.9% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2021 | 164,650 | 13,256 | $86,004 | 2.4% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 160,766 | 13,162 | $80,960 | 6.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 171,236 | 13,186 | $77,351 | 0.1% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 171,451 | 13,173 | $76,290 | 0.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 172,447 | 13,424 | $73,966 | 0.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 171,656 | 13,780 | $72,334 | 1.4% | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 | 109,997 | 62.5% | 1.14 | est. · 1.00 |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 52,770 | 30.0% | 0.85 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 13,330 | 7.6% | 1.06 | pub. |
† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.
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 Michigan, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Michigan. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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