Washington · NAICS 425 · Annual, 2025
Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 425 in Washington, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers (NAICS 425) employed about 11,700 people in Washington across roughly 2,298 establishments, with average annual pay of $173,260.
Employment in Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington declined 10.4% from 2024 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 73.9% above the all-industries average in Washington. Employment fell 50.1% from 2014 to 2025. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Washington are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 11,700Employment, 2025
- 2,298Establishments
- $173,260Avg. annual pay
- 0.3%Share of Washington jobs
- 1.13Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 9,950; 2005 12,100; 2006 12,200; 2007 13,000; 2008 14,600; 2009 15,900; 2010 17,500; 2011 19,600; 2012 20,800; 2013 21,800; 2014 23,400; 2015 23,000; 2016 22,200; 2017 21,600; 2018 18,900; 2019 17,400; 2020 16,300; 2021 14,300; 2022 14,500; 2023 14,100; 2024 13,000; 2025 11,700.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11,676 | 2,298 | $173,257 | 10.4% | pub. |
| 2024 | 13,032 | 2,459 | $172,315 | 7.6% | pub. |
| 2023 | 14,107 | 2,660 | $140,526 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 14,455 | 3,090 | $135,048 | 0.9% | pub. |
| 2021 | 14,328 | 3,374 | $136,572 | 11.9% | pub. |
| 2020 | 16,271 | 3,681 | $124,725 | 6.5% | pub. |
| 2019 | 17,410 | 4,028 | $108,396 | 7.6% | pub. |
| 2018 | 18,851 | 4,544 | $107,181 | 12.9% | pub. |
| 2017 | 21,643 | 5,411 | $102,018 | 2.3% | pub. |
| 2016 | 22,151 | 5,791 | $98,486 | 3.9% | pub. |
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.
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Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers in Washington, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for wholesale trade agents and brokers in Washington. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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