Utah · NAICS 42 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade in Utah
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 42 in Utah, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade (NAICS 42) employed about 60,700 people in Utah across roughly 6,871 establishments, with average annual pay of $98,110.
Employment in Wholesale Trade in Utah grew 14.2% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 41.6% above the all-industries average in Utah. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Utah are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 60,700Employment, 2025
- 6,871Establishments
- $98,110Avg. annual pay
- 3.5%Share of Utah jobs
- 0.90Location 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 41,100; 2005 43,200; 2006 44,600; 2007 47,300; 2008 48,200; 2009 45,200; 2010 44,000; 2011 46,100; 2012 47,800; 2013 48,300; 2014 48,700; 2015 50,000; 2016 49,900; 2017 50,800; 2018 51,000; 2019 52,300; 2020 53,100; 2021 55,500; 2022 58,800; 2023 60,300; 2024 61,900; 2025 60,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 60,679 | 6,871 | $98,110 | 2.0% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2024 | 61,917 | 7,050 | $90,350 | 2.8% | pub. |
| 2023 | 60,260 | 7,154 | $88,583 | 2.6% | pub. |
| 2022 | 58,758 | 7,071 | $84,583 | 6.0% | pub. |
| 2021 | 55,450 | 6,623 | $79,910 | 4.4% | pub. |
| 2020 | 53,127 | 6,406 | $74,751 | 1.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 52,342 | 6,244 | $71,167 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2018 | 50,960 | 6,184 | $68,901 | 0.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 50,829 | 6,069 | $66,165 | 1.9% | pub. |
| 2016 | 49,891 | 5,910 | $63,988 | 0.2% | 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 | 35,710 | 58.9% | 0.94 | pub. |
| 424 | Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods | 19,228 | 31.7% | 0.78 | pub. |
| 425 | Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers | 5,741 | 9.5% | 1.15 | est. · 0.99 |
† 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 Utah, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade in Utah. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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