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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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4238 | Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers | 64,811 | 297,936,999 | 30,113,741 | 704,774 | |
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42383 | Industrial machinery & equipment merchant wholesalers | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | 14,694,415 | 319,091 | |
| 423830 | Industrial machinery & equipment merchant wholesalers | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | 14,694,415 | 319,091 | ||
| 4238301 | Food-processing mach & equipment merchant wholesalers | 1,091 | 4,507,400 | 563,016 | 11,942 | ||
| 4238302 | Hydrlc & pneumatic mach & equip merchant wholesalers | 3,652 | 11,975,106 | 1,581,010 | 35,757 | ||
| 4238303 | General-purpose ind mach & equip merchant wholesalers | 11,108 | 37,448,708 | 4,882,026 | 104,602 | ||
| 4238304 | Metalworking machinery & equip merchant wholesalers | 3,172 | 12,229,759 | 1,381,636 | 29,858 | ||
| 4238305 | Materials handling equipment merchant wholesalers | 4,096 | 15,226,149 | 2,410,126 | 58,162 | ||
| 4238306 | Oil well/refinery mach & equip merchant wholesalers | 2,817 | 10,159,114 | 1,129,793 | 25,825 | ||
| 4238307 | Oth industrial machinery & equip merchant wholesalers | 5,336 | 22,061,540 | 2,746,808 | 52,945 | ||
| 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 | |
| 4238 | Machinery, equipment, & supplies merchant wholesalers | 86,291 | 300,304,536 | 21,480 | 24.9 | 2,367,537 | 0.8 | 64,811 | 297,936,999 | |
| 42383 | Industrial machinery & equipment merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | |
| 423830 | Industrial machinery & equipment merchant wholesalers | N | N | N | N | N | N | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | |
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the merchant wholesale distribution of specialized machinery, equipment, and related parts generally used in manufacturing, oil well, and warehousing activities.
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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) | ||||||||
| 423830 | ![]() |
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Industrial machinery & equipment merchant wholesalers | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | 100.0 | 14,694,415 | 319,091 | |
| 89% of | 421830 |
| Industrial machinery & equipment whsle (pt) | 31,272 | 113,607,776 | 100.0 | 14,694,415 | 319,091 |
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| 421830 | pt | Food-processing machinery and equipment | 1,091 | 4,507,400 | 563,016 | 11,942 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Hydraulic and pneumatic pumps and motors | 1,531 | 5,250,331 | 552,539 | 12,881 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Hydraulic and pneumatic parts and accessories, excluding pumps and motors | 2,121 | 6,724,775 | 1,028,471 | 22,876 | |||
| 421830 | pt | General-purpose machinery, equipment, and parts | 11,108 | 37,448,708 | 4,882,026 | 104,602 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Metalworking machinery, equipment, and supplies | 3,172 | 12,229,759 | 1,381,636 | 29,858 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Materials handling equipment and parts | 4,096 | 15,226,149 | 2,410,126 | 58,162 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Oil well, oil refinery, and pipeline machinery, equipment, and supplies | 2,817 | 10,159,114 | 1,129,793 | 25,825 | |||
| 421830 | pt | Other industrial machinery and equipment | 5,336 | 22,061,540 | 2,746,808 | 52,945 | |||
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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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| 421830 | Industrial machinery & equipment whsle | 2002 | 34,626 | 127,083,706 | 15,305,350 | 331,315 | ||||||||
| 1997 | 35,674 | 139,946,952 | 14,167,699 | 342,008 | ||||||||||
| % change | -2.9 | -9.2 | 8.0 | -3.1 | ||||||||||
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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 (%) |
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| 10000 | Industry total | 113,607,77 | 100.00 | |
| 12320 | General-purpose industrial machinery | 32,588,800 | 28.69 | |
| 12340 | Materials handling machinery, equipment, and parts | 11,714,319 | 10.31 | |
| 12330 | Metalworking machinery, equipment, and parts | 11,032,089 | 9.71 | |
| 12350 | Oil well, oil refinery, and pipeline machinery | 9,691,033 | 8.53 | |
| -Other | 48,581,535 | 42.76 |
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