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| Employers | Nonemployers | Compare to '97 | States | Products, Size, etc. | ||
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NAICS code |
Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales
($1,000) |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
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42 | Wholesale trade | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | 259,653,080 | 5,878,405 | |
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423 | Durable goods merchant wholesalers | 260,445 | 2,171,265,591 | 157,156,665 | 3,356,985 | |
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4234 | Prof & commercial equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 37,416 | 406,445,349 | 41,221,694 | 710,154 | |
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42349 | Other professional equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | 1,575,808 | 35,177 | |
| 423490 | Other professional equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | 1,575,808 | 35,177 | ||
| 4234901 | Religious & school supplies merchant wholesalers | 408 | 3,749,403 | 328,381 | 9,761 | ||
| 4234902 | Srvyng & oth prof equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 2,216 | 11,377,247 | 1,247,427 | 25,416 | ||
| NAICS code |
NAICS Title |
All firms | Nonemployers | Employers | ||||||
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Establish- ments |
Receipts ($1,000) | Establishments | Receipts |
Establish- ments |
Sales ($1,000) | |||||
| Number | % of all | $1,000 | % of all | |||||||
| N = Not available | ||||||||||
| 42 | Wholesale trade | 799,302 | 4,664,777,063 | 363,781 | 45.5 | 30,021,951 | 0.6 | 435,521 | 4,634,755,112 | |
| 423 | Durable goods merchant wholesalers | 454,362 | 2,188,221,869 | 193,917 | 42.7 | 16,956,278 | 0.8 | 260,445 | 2,171,265,591 | |
| 4234 | Prof & commercial equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 48,199 | 407,408,105 | 10,783 | 22.4 | 962,756 | 0.2 | 37,416 | 406,445,349 | |
| 42349 | Other professional equip & supp merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | |
| 423490 | Other professional equip & supp merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of professional equipment and supplies (except ophthalmic goods and medical, dental, and hospital equipment and supplies).
Cross-References. Establishments primarily engaged in--
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2002 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS code |
Pt. | Description |
Estab- lish- ments |
Sales |
Annual payroll ($1,000) |
Paid employees |
Link to SIC (1997 data) |
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| ($1,000) | (Pct) | ||||||||
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Other professional equip & supp merchant wholesalers | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | 100.0 | 1,575,808 | 35,177 | |
| 96% of | 421490 |
| Other professional equipment & supplies whsle (pt) | 2,624 | 15,126,650 | 100.0 | 1,575,808 | 35,177 |
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| 421490 | pt | Religious and school supplies | 408 | 3,749,403 | 328,381 | 9,761 | |||
| 421490 | pt | Other professional equipment and supplies | 2,216 | 11,377,247 | 1,247,427 | 25,416 | |||
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1997 NAICS code |
1997 NAICS Description | Year | Establishments | Sales ($1,000) | Annual payroll ($1,000) | Paid employees | ||||||||
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| 421490 | Other professional equipment & supplies whsle | 2002 | 2,839 | 15,790,607 | 1,609,067 | 35,820 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 2,781 | 11,038,778 | 1,267,327 | 31,857 | ||||||||||
| % change | 2.1 | 43.0 | 27.0 | 12.4 | ||||||||||
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Data for the Wholesale trade sector are published for the U.S., states, metropolitan areas, counties, and places.



















































| Product code | Product description | Sales of this line ($000) |
Percent of industry sales (%) |
Graph |
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| 10000 | Industry total | 15,126,650 | 100.00 | |
| 11050 | Miscellaneous professional equipment and supplies | 10,596,582 | 70.05 | |
| 11040 | Religious and school supplies | 3,637,539 | 24.05 | |
| 19700 | Service receipts and labor charges | 316,489 | 2.09 | |
| -Other | 576,040 | 3.81 |
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| Statistics of U.S. Businesses | Annual | Number of firms, employees, payroll, (and revenue, for 2002 only) by employment-size of the enterprise | US, states, metro areas |
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