Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores: NAICS 451

About the Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, and Music Stores subsector

The sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores subsector is part of the retail trade sector.

The sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores subsector consists of these industry groups:

• Sporting Goods, Hobby, and Musical Instrument Stores: NAICS 4511
• Book, Periodical, and Music Stores: NAICS 4512

Workforce Statistics

This section provides information relating to employment in sporting goods, hobby, book, and music 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	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025	Jun. 2025
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		1,512.3	1,512.4	(p)1,511.9	(p)1,509.8
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		1,193.3	1,199.5	(p)1,211.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2024
Cashiers	134,340
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	118,650
Retail salespersons	605,640
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	30,620
Stock clerks and order fillers	56,190

(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 sporting goods, hobby, book, and music 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 sporting goods, hobby, book, and music stores.

Earnings and Hours of All Employees

Data series	Back data	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025
Average hourly earnings		$24.15	$24.11	$24.37	(p)$24.28
Average weekly hours		27.8	27.8	27.8	(p)28.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Feb. 2025	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025
Average hourly earnings		$21.33	$21.34	$21.26	(p)$21.31
Average weekly hours		27.1	27.0	26.8	(p)27.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2024
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Cashiers	14.85	14.99	30,880	31,190
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	21.60	22.81	44,920	47,450
Retail salespersons	15.75	16.24	32,760	33,780
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	17.68	18.65	36,780	38,800
Stock clerks and order fillers	16.54		34,400	35,020

(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 sporting goods, hobby, book, and music 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	2.3
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.4
Cases involving days away from work	0.8
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	Mar. 2025	Apr. 2025	May 2025	Jun. 2025
Producer price index		(p)128.155	(p)133.111	(p)139.103	(p)131.775
Percent change from previous month		(p)-1.7%	(p)3.9%	(p)4.5%	(p)-5.3%
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Producer Price Indexes)

Workplace Trends

This section presents data on the number of establishments in sporting goods, hobby, book, and music 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		47,525	47,799	47,823	48,131
Local government		4	4	4	4
State government		2	1	1	1
Federal government		45	51	51	51

(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		7.5	-6.6	1.1	-5.1
Hours worked		10.0	1.9	-2.7	3.7
Output		18.3	-4.8	-1.6	-1.6
Unit labor costs		-2.8	10.0	5.9	7.9

(Source: Productivity)

 

Data extracted on: July 23, 2025