Wisconsin · NAICS 459 · Annual, 2025
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Wisconsin
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 459 in Wisconsin, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers (NAICS 459) employed about 27,500 people in Wisconsin across roughly 3,296 establishments, with average annual pay of $29,590.
Employment in Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Wisconsin grew 15.9% from 2020 to 2025. Average pay in the industry is 55.3% below the all-industries average in Wisconsin. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Wisconsin are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.
- 27,500Employment, 2025
- 3,296Establishments
- $29,590Avg. annual pay
- 0.9%Share of Wisconsin jobs
- 0.98Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 31,100; 2005 30,900; 2006 30,300; 2007 30,500; 2008 28,900; 2009 27,700; 2010 27,300; 2011 27,200; 2012 28,300; 2013 28,800; 2014 28,500; 2015 28,900; 2016 28,900; 2017 28,200; 2018 27,600; 2019 26,800; 2020 23,700; 2021 25,800; 2022 26,700; 2023 27,400; 2024 27,800; 2025 27,500.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 27,514 | 3,296 | $29,592 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2024 | 27,811 | 3,144 | $29,029 | 1.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2023 | 27,372 | 2,934 | $28,525 | 2.7% | pub. |
| 2022 | 26,650 | 2,850 | $27,904 | 3.3% | pub. |
| 2021 | 25,788 | 2,633 | $26,174 | 8.6% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2020 | 23,742 | 2,653 | $25,196 | 11.5% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2019 | 26,832 | 2,680 | $22,755 | 2.7% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2018 | 27,569 | 2,728 | $22,308 | 2.2% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2017 | 28,195 | 2,707 | $21,313 | 2.3% | est. · 1.00 |
| 2016 | 28,854 | 2,719 | $20,777 | 0.1% | est. · 1.00 |
† 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.
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Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, Book, and Miscellaneous Retailers in Wisconsin, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for sporting goods, hobby, musical instrument, book, and miscellaneous retailers in Wisconsin. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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