Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores: NAICS 442

About the Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores subsector

The furniture and home furnishings stores subsector is part of the retail trade sector.

The furniture and home furnishings stores subsector consists of these industry groups:

• Furniture Stores: NAICS 4421
• Home Furnishings Stores: NAICS 4422

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment in furniture and home furnishings stores. These data are obtained from employer or establishment surveys. The following tables present an overview of the industry including the number of jobs, data for occupations common to the industry, and projections of occupational employment change.

Employment

Data series	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		410.3	409.2	(p)408.5	(p)406.5
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		335.2	330.8	(p)330.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2024
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	44,660
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	27,140
Retail salespersons	263,130
Stock clerks and order fillers	18,430
Truck drivers, light or delivery services	20,420

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Projections

For projected (future) employment estimates, see the National Employment Matrix, which includes employment estimates by industry and occupation for furniture and home furnishings stores.

(Source: Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections)

Earnings and Hours

This section presents data on employee earnings and weekly hours. The latest industry averages of hourly earnings and weekly hours are shown. In addition, recent hourly and annual earnings are shown for occupations commonly found in furniture and home furnishings stores.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Data series	Back data	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$28.07	$28.04	$27.95	(p)$28.16
Average weekly hours		31.6	30.2	30.4	(p)30.7
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$24.35	$24.34	$24.68	(p)$25.09
Average weekly hours		30.1	28.8	29.1	(p)29.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2024
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	23.95	27.15	49,820	56,470
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	17.93	18.53	37,300	38,540
Retail salespersons	17.24	19.66	35,850	40,890
Stock clerks and order fillers	18.25	19.06	37,960	39,640
Truck drivers, light or delivery services	18.18	18.92	37,810	39,360

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Work-related Injuries and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on rates of workplace injuries and illnesses per 100 full-time workers in furniture and home furnishings stores. An injury or illness is considered to be work-related if an event or exposure in the work environment either caused or contributed to the resulting condition or significantly aggravated a pre-existing condition. Information on fatal work-related injuries can be found at www.bls.gov/iif.

Data series	2023
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.7
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.7
Cases involving days away from work	0.9
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.7
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

(Source: Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities)

Prices

This section provides industry-specific pricing information. The producer price index measures the percentage change in prices that domestic producers receive for goods and services. The prices included in the producer price index are from the first commercial transaction.

Data series	Back data	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025
Producer price index		(p)97.048	(p)99.649	(p)99.011	(p)100.241
Percent change from previous month		(p)-1.6%	(p)2.7%	(p)-0.6%	(p)1.2%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in furniture and home furnishings stores. Also included in this section is information on productivity, presented as the rate of change in output per hour of workers in the industry.

Establishments

Data series	Back data	1st quarter 2021	2nd quarter 2021	3rd quarter 2021	4th quarter 2021
Number of establishments
Private industry		45,380	45,289	45,375	45,408
Local government
State government
Federal government		54	55	57	57

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

This section presents productivity and related data for the industry, presented as the percent change from the previous year. Measures of labor productivity, or output per hour, compare the growth in output to the growth in hours worked. Growth in unit labor costs represent the annual change in the labor cost of producing one unit of output.

Data series	Back data	2021	2022	2023	2024
Labor productivity, output per hour		11.9	-9.2	1.0
Hours worked		4.6	1.1	-8.1	-6.4
Output		17.1	-8.2	-7.2
Unit labor costs		-2.4	11.8	3.4

(Source: Productivity)

 

Data extracted on: May 20, 2025