How this published industry row changed from 2017 to 2022 Inspect six Census measures, publication status, and this row's signed-change position among strict same-level peers.
New in 2022 table NAICS 449
Not compared Not ranked 89.4% paired Not compared Not ranked 100% paired Not compared Not ranked 100% paired Not compared Not ranked 100% paired Not compared Not ranked 100% paired Not compared Not ranked 100% paired Herfindahl-Hirschman Index / HHI points
Not compared Not compared from 2017
Same-level change rank
Not ranked Outside published pair rank 2017 Economic Census Not published
2022 Economic Census Not published
Signed change context
Strict published pairs at hierarchy level 3
Peer 90th percentile / selected extent
Lower change Zero Higher change
+0.2 pts +8.6 pts
National rank Not ranked
Sector rank Not ranked
National coverage 59 of 66
Sector coverage 1 of 2
No same-code row appears in the 2017 table, so this profile publishes the 2022 value without a five-year delta.
Measure 2017 2022 Change National rank
HHI Herfindahl-Hirschman Index Not published Not published Not compared Not ranked Not published to Not published Not ranked CR4 Four-firm concentration ratio Not published 30.6% Not compared Not ranked Not published to 30.6% Not ranked CR8 Eight-firm concentration ratio Not published 38% Not compared Not ranked Not published to 38% Not ranked Revenue Industry revenue Not published $367B Not compared Not ranked Not published to $367B Not ranked Employment Paid employees Not published 768.5K Not compared Not ranked Not published to 768.5K Not ranked Firms Employer firms Not published 52,632 Not compared Not ranked Not published to 52,632 Not ranked
The broader Trade + transport labor environment The parent NAICS 44-45 bridge supplies context only; no reading is assigned to this narrower industry. Parent-group context JOLTS JSON CES JSON
Job openings 4.4% Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Hires 3.9% Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Quits 2.5% Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
Layoffs + discharges 1.1% Jun 2026 JOLTS rate
All employees 28.7M 28,708 thousand payroll jobs
Weekly hours 34.1 0.0 hrs from year earlier
Hourly earnings $32.00 +3.2% from year earlier
Openings and quits on native rate scales Jul 2021 to Jun 2026
Sixty-month JOLTS openings and quits rates Job openings and quits rates for the mapped Trade, transportation, and utilities source group. The measures keep their published denominators and are not a labor-market power score. 8.0% 6.0% 4.0% 2.0% 0.0% Jul 2021 Oct 2022 Jan 2024 Apr 2025 Jun 2026 +0.9 pp openings / year earlier+0.2 pp quits / year earlier
Payroll jobs and nominal earnings, indexed Aug 2021 = 100
Sixty-month CES payroll jobs and hourly earnings indexes Payroll jobs and nominal average hourly earnings for the mapped Trade, transportation, and utilities source group, each independently indexed to 100 in the first displayed month. Native levels remain in the readouts. 125 118 110 103 95 Aug 2021 Nov 2022 Feb 2024 May 2025 Jul 2026 -0.1% payroll jobs / year earlier+3.2% nominal earnings / year earlier
Selected Census parent NAICS 44-45 Retail trade
JOLTS group 400000 Trade, transportation, and utilities
CES supersector 40 Trade, transportation, and utilities
Mapped Census sectors 4 22, 42, 44-45, 48-49 Parent-group boundary Every JOLTS and CES reading in this chapter describes the broader Trade, transportation, and utilities and Trade, transportation, and utilities BLS groups mapped through parent sector NAICS 44-45, not Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers (NAICS 449) by itself. JOLTS industry rates describe national labor demand and worker-flow activity in broad BLS industry groups. They do not measure employer concentration, monopsony power, wages, bargaining power, job quality, local labor-market conditions, worker substitutability, a legal labor market, or the competitive cause of a change. The job openings rate uses employment plus openings as its denominator. Hires, quits, and layoffs and discharges use employment. Rates may be compared across published industry groups within the same measure, but different measures must not be added together or treated as a common flow balance. CES employment, hours, and earnings describe national payroll jobs and establishment averages in broad private-industry groups. They do not measure unique workers, vacancies, employer concentration, monopsony power, bargaining power, job quality, a local or occupational labor market, a legal antitrust market, or the competitive cause of a change. All-employee hourly earnings are current-dollar averages and are not adjusted for inflation. Changes can reflect shifts in industry and worker composition. Employment is reported in thousands of payroll jobs, so multiple jobholders may be counted more than once. Compare industries only within the same published measure; do not add or ratio the three measures into a common score. The two releases remain separate and are not combined into a labor-market, monopsony, competition, welfare, or causal score.
The broader Retail output environment Parent NAICS 44-45 supplies context only; no BEA value is assigned to this narrower industry. Parent-sector context JSON CSV
GDP share 6.2% 2025 current-dollar composition
Real growth -7.3% 2026-Q1 annualized BEA convention
Growth contribution -0.47 pp 2026-Q1 contribution to real GDP growth
Real quantity index 123.2 2026-Q1 / 2017=100
Current value added $1.99T 2026-Q1 seasonally adjusted annual rate Retail annual share of current-dollar GDP BEA value-added share from 1997 through 2025. This is an accounting composition measure, not a market share. 8.0% 7.3% 6.5% 5.8% 5.0% 1997 2004 2011 2018 2025 6.8% 1997-0.6 pp long-run shift6.2% 2025
Selected profile NAICS 449 Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers
Canonical sector NAICS 44-45 Retail trade
BEA line 35 Retail trade
Published clocks 29 years + 85 quarters annual composition / quarterly SAAR Parent-sector boundary Every BEA reading in this chapter describes parent sector Retail trade (NAICS 44-45), not Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliance retailers (NAICS 449) by itself. No value is allocated to the narrower industry. BEA value added measures an industry's contribution to GDP. It is not sales, gross output, profit, a markup, market share, concentration, a legal antitrust market, or evidence of competitive harm or causation. Current-dollar value-added shares reflect both prices and quantities. Real value added uses chained 2017 dollars and is suitable for growth comparisons, but chained-dollar industry components are not additive. Quarterly levels are seasonally adjusted at annual rates, and quarterly growth and contribution measures retain BEA's published annualized convention. The BEA table contains nested industries, cross-industry aggregates, and addenda. Only the 20 major-industry rows form the composition view; summing those rows with their children, parent aggregates, or addenda would double count activity.