Health and Personal Care Stores: NAICS 446

About the Health and Personal Care Stores subsector

The health and personal care stores subsector is part of the retail trade sector.

The health and personal care stores subsector consists of a single industry group, Health and Personal Care Stores: NAICS 4461.

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment in health and personal care 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	Nov. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		1,085.0	1,089.9	(p)1,090.9	(p)1,088.5
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		854.9	867.8	(p)849.5
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2023
Cashiers	171,460
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	50,030
Pharmacists	134,050
Pharmacy aides	29,270
Pharmacy technicians	237,010
Retail salespersons	166,910

(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 health and personal care 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 health and personal care stores.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Data series	Back data	Oct. 2024	Nov. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$29.47	$29.42	$29.26	(p)$29.79
Average weekly hours		29.5	29.1	29.8	(p)29.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Oct. 2024	Nov. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025
Average hourly earnings		$24.20	$24.13	$24.02	(p)$24.38
Average weekly hours		28.6	28.3	29.3	(p)27.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2023
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Cashiers	16.08	15.71	33,450	32,670
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	22.41	23.94	46,610	49,790
Pharmacists	63.12	61.06	131,290	126,990
Pharmacy aides	17.00	17.05	35,360	35,460
Pharmacy technicians	17.97	19.31	37,370	40,170
Retail salespersons	15.29	16.16	31,810	33,620

(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 health and personal care 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	2022
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.3
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.2
Cases involving days away from work	0.7
Cases involving days of job transfer or restriction	0.5
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	Nov. 2024	Dec. 2024	Jan. 2025	Feb. 2025
Producer price index		(p)141.436	(p)140.587	(p)141.297	(p)141.559
Percent change from previous month		(p)-0.1%	(p)-0.6%	(p)0.5%	(p)0.2%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in health and personal care 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		111,734	112,133	112,565	112,734
Local government		13	13	13	13
Federal government

(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	2020	2021	2022	2023
Labor productivity, output per hour		10.2	3.7	1.3	4.7
Hours worked		-7.8	6.4	-0.1	-0.8
Output		1.6	10.3	1.2	3.9
Unit labor costs		-2.6	-2.7	-1.8	1.1

(Source: Productivity)

 

Data extracted on: March 21, 2025