South Carolina · NAICS 459 · Annual, 2025

Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in South Carolina

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 459 in South Carolina, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers (NAICS 459) employed about 21,900 people in South Carolina across roughly 2,927 establishments, with average annual pay of $37,370.

Employment in Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in South Carolina grew 21.8% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 41.4% below the all-industries average in South Carolina. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 21,900. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for South Carolina are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 21,900Employment, 2025
  • 2,927Establishments
  • $37,370Avg. annual pay
  • 0.9%Share of South Carolina jobs
  • 0.99Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in South Carolina, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 18,500 to 21,900.010K20K30K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 18,500; 2005 18,700; 2006 18,300; 2007 19,000; 2008 18,700; 2009 17,500; 2010 17,000; 2011 17,300; 2012 17,800; 2013 18,500; 2014 19,100; 2015 19,700; 2016 19,800; 2017 19,600; 2018 19,800; 2019 19,800; 2020 18,000; 2021 19,400; 2022 21,600; 2023 21,800; 2024 21,800; 2025 21,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202521,8872,927$37,372 0.4%pub.
202421,8022,945$35,791 0.0%pub.
202321,7932,845$33,847 0.7%est. · 1.00
202221,6462,813$32,307 11.3%pub.
202119,4472,341$29,353 8.2%est. · 0.59
202017,9702,267$27,538 9.1%est. · 0.71
201919,7742,248$24,269 0.2%est. · 0.49
201819,8212,265$23,167 1.2%est. · 0.46
201719,5892,270$22,844 1.3%est. · 0.48
201619,8372,270$21,795 0.6%est. · 0.78

† 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.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

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Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in South Carolina, quarterly, at full depth

This page shows annual figures for sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers in South Carolina. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.

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