Pennsylvania · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Pennsylvania
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Pennsylvania, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 216,500 people in Pennsylvania across roughly 23,028 establishments, with average annual pay of $106,360.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Pennsylvania grew 6.0% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 43.1% above the all-industries average in Pennsylvania. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Pennsylvania are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 216,500Employment, 2025
- 23,028Establishments
- $106,360Avg. annual pay
- 3.6%Share of Pennsylvania jobs
- 0.92Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 229,600; 2005 234,600; 2006 238,300; 2007 240,400; 2008 239,800; 2009 226,100; 2010 224,000; 2011 228,100; 2012 228,100; 2013 225,600; 2014 226,100; 2015 224,800; 2016 219,700; 2017 218,900; 2018 217,400; 2019 217,400; 2020 204,300; 2021 204,800; 2022 213,200; 2023 217,000; 2024 217,200; 2025 216,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 216,492 | 23,028 | $106,356 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 217,225 | 23,161 | $103,432 | 0.1% | pub. |
| 2023 | 216,992 | 23,106 | $99,654 | 1.8% | pub. |
| 2022 | 213,150 | 23,241 | $95,506 | 4.1% | pub. |
| 2021 | 204,780 | 22,801 | $91,561 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2020 | 204,276 | 22,940 | $86,346 | 6.0% | pub. |
| 2019 | 217,418 | 23,412 | $82,077 | 0.0% | pub. |
| 2018 | 217,408 | 23,559 | $80,064 | 0.7% | pub. |
| 2017 | 218,879 | 24,144 | $79,577 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2016 | 219,696 | 24,559 | $77,582 | 2.3% | 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 | 114,622 | 52.9% | 0.87 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 64,024 | 29.6% | 0.75 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 37,846 | 17.5% | 2.19 | 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 Pennsylvania, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Pennsylvania. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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