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Wholesale jobs per 1,000 residents: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Wholesale jobs per 1,000 residents (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Wholesale trade jobs and pay by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-10
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau (County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 42 and 00 (all sectors)) (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator)) (opens in a new tab)

National value: 18.5 (United States).

Washington: 17.5Idaho: 17.3Montana: 14North Dakota: 28.8Minnesota: 24.6Michigan: 18.3Ohio: 19.7Pennsylvania: 19.2New York: 16Vermont: 15.8New Hampshire: 17.7Maine: 12.6Arizona: 15California: 20.7New Mexico: 9.8Texas: 18.5Louisiana: 15.6Mississippi: 13.7Alabama: 14.8Florida: 15.9Georgia: 19.9South Carolina: 15.1North Carolina: 19.3Virginia: 12.5District of Columbia: 5Maryland: 14.6Delaware: 18.9New Jersey: 29Connecticut: 18.8Rhode Island: 15.9Massachusetts: 21.6Oregon: 17.6Utah: 18.5Wyoming: 12.2Nevada: 13.3Colorado: 17.8South Dakota: 22.4Nebraska: 20.8Kansas: 21.5Oklahoma: 14.4Iowa: 21.8Missouri: 21.5Wisconsin: 21Illinois: 25.5Kentucky: 16.4Arkansas: 17.2Tennessee: 17West Virginia: 9.5Indiana: 18.1Alaska: 11.4Hawaii: 12

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 5 to 14
  • Group 2: 14 to 16
  • Group 3: 16 to 18.3
  • Group 4: 18.3 to 20.8
  • Highest: 20.8 to 29
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: County Business Patterns counts employer establishments only; states' values for small subsectors may be withheld (blank) to avoid disclosing individual businesses.

1New Jersey29
2North Dakota28.8
3Illinois25.5
4Minnesota24.6
5South Dakota22.4
6Iowa21.8
7Massachusetts21.6
8Kansas21.5
8Missouri21.5
10Wisconsin21
11Nebraska20.8
12California20.7
13Georgia19.9
14Ohio19.7
15North Carolina19.3
16Pennsylvania19.2
17Delaware18.9
18Connecticut18.8
19Texas18.5
19Utah18.5
21Michigan18.3
22Indiana18.1
23Colorado17.8
24New Hampshire17.7
25Oregon17.6
26Washington17.5
27Idaho17.3
28Arkansas17.2
29Tennessee17
30Kentucky16.4
31New York16
32Florida15.9
32Rhode Island15.9
34Vermont15.8
35Louisiana15.6
36South Carolina15.1
37Arizona15
38Alabama14.8
39Maryland14.6
40Oklahoma14.4
41Montana14
42Mississippi13.7
43Nevada13.3
44Maine12.6
45Virginia12.5
46Wyoming12.2
47Hawaii12
48Alaska11.4
49New Mexico9.8
50West Virginia9.5
51District of Columbia5

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 codes 42 and 00 (all sectors)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by wholesale jobs per 1,000 residents (derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), NAICS 2017 sector 42 (wholesale trade); rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-10. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-wholesale-jobs-per-1000-residents/

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