Utah · NAICS 455 · Annual, 2025

General Merchandise Retailers in Utah

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 455 in Utah, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, General Merchandise Retailers (NAICS 455) employed about 36,500 people in Utah across roughly 794 establishments, with average annual pay of $37,840.

Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Utah grew 24.8% from 2004 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 45.4% below 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.

  • 36,500Employment, 2025
  • 794Establishments
  • $37,840Avg. annual pay
  • 2.1%Share of Utah jobs
  • 1.00Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in General Merchandise Retailers in Utah, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 29,300 to 36,500.020K40K60K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 29,300; 2005 29,300; 2006 30,200; 2007 31,100; 2008 32,400; 2009 32,700; 2010 32,800; 2011 33,800; 2012 34,500; 2013 34,400; 2014 34,400; 2015 35,400; 2016 36,600; 2017 35,900; 2018 36,700; 2019 36,700; 2020 37,400; 2021 41,100; 2022 36,100; 2023 36,700; 2024 36,700; 2025 36,500.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202536,533794$37,840 0.4%pub.
202436,695744$35,159 0.0%pub.
202336,684645$33,840 1.7%pub.
202236,082608$30,107 12.3%pub.
202141,1201,053$33,139 10.0%pub.
202037,388974$34,345 1.8%pub.
201936,736948$30,988 0.0%pub.
201836,745911$30,450 2.4%pub.
201735,878891$29,048 2.1%pub.
201636,640865$27,599 3.4%est. · 0.48

† 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.

Notes

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General Merchandise Retailers in Utah, quarterly, at full depth

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