New Jersey · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025

Wholesale Trade in New Jersey

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in New Jersey, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 210,000 people in New Jersey across roughly 16,194 establishments, with average annual pay of $116,450.

Employment in Wholesale Trade in New Jersey declined 8.6% from 2004 to 2025. The industry is 1.3× as concentrated in New Jersey as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.26). Average pay in the industry is 35.0% above the all-industries average in New Jersey. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for New Jersey are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 210,000Employment, 2025
  • 16,194Establishments
  • $116,450Avg. annual pay
  • 4.9%Share of New Jersey jobs
  • 1.26Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Wholesale Trade in New Jersey, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 229,800 to 210,000.0100K200K300K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 229,800; 2005 231,400; 2006 230,200; 2007 231,100; 2008 229,700; 2009 215,000; 2010 209,400; 2011 208,800; 2012 211,800; 2013 211,800; 2014 212,700; 2015 215,000; 2016 214,900; 2017 216,200; 2018 214,800; 2019 213,300; 2020 200,600; 2021 203,700; 2022 212,400; 2023 214,400; 2024 213,500; 2025 210,000.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
2025210,01116,194$116,447 1.6%pub.
2024213,49916,528$111,811 0.4%pub.
2023214,44216,796$107,648 1.0%pub.
2022212,38416,941$105,594 4.3%pub.
2021203,71116,826$100,462 1.6%pub.
2020200,60016,821$94,689 6.0%pub.
2019213,30416,547$90,548 0.7%pub.
2018214,82616,734$88,753 0.7%pub.
2017216,24016,805$87,570 0.6%pub.
2016214,90517,011$87,121 0.1%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

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of wholesale tradeLQSource
423Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods103,71149.4%1.11pub.
424Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods96,97846.2%1.61pub.
425Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers9,3224.4%0.76pub.

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 in New Jersey, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in New Jersey. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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