Retail employment in the U.S. 2009, by state

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 1, 2011
This graph depicts retail employement in the United States in 2009, by state. California had a number of about 4.78 million retail employees in 2009.

Retail employment in the United States in 2009, by state

StateNumber of retail jobs
California 4,783,627
Texas 3,374,411
Florida 2,607,843
New York 2,333,626
Pennsylvania 1,697,147
Illinois 1,693,548
Ohio 1,564,384
Georgia 1,261,347
Michigan 1,254,843
North Carolina 1,239,009
New Jersey 1,110,430
Virginia 1,046,203
Massachusetts 920,621
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August 2011

Region

United States

Survey time period

2009

Supplementary notes

For this statistic, the retail industry is defined to include retail trade and food services and drinking places.
Employment is defined as the number of direct, indirect, and induced payroll and self-employed jobs, including part-time jobs.

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