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	Dec. 2020	Jan. 2021	Feb. 2021	Mar. 2021
Employment (in thousands)
Employment, all employees (seasonally adjusted)		460.4	464.9	(p)469.5	(p)463.5
Employment, production and nonsupervisory employees		407.4	387.8	(p)381.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Employment by Occupation

Data series	Employment, 2020
Cashiers	38,860
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	39,210
Retail salespersons	256,400
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	8,710
Stock clerks and order fillers	13,960

(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	Nov. 2020	Dec. 2020	Jan. 2021	Feb. 2021
Average hourly earnings		$18.38	$18.45	$18.18	(p)$18.84
Average weekly hours		26.5	26.2	25.8	(p)24.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings and Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees

Data series	Back data	Nov. 2020	Dec. 2020	Jan. 2021	Feb. 2021
Average hourly earnings		$15.80	$16.27	$16.23	(p)$16.36
Average weekly hours		27.0	27.2	25.6	(p)24.4
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Current Employment Statistics)

Earnings by Occupation

Data series	Wages, 2020
	Hourly		Annual
	Median	Mean	Median	Mean
Cashiers	12.08	12.36	25,120	25,700
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers	19.27	21.39	40,070	44,480
Retail salespersons	12.33	13.12	25,640	27,290
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	14.12	14.87	29,380	30,930
Stock clerks and order fillers	12.74	13.43	26,510	27,940

(Source: Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics)

Work-related Fatalities, Injuries, and Illnesses

This section presents data for the industry on the number of workplace fatalities and the 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.

Data series	2016	2017	2018	2019
Fatalities
Number of fatalities	10	3	3	6
Blank cells indicate no data reported or data that do not meet publication criteria.

Data series	2019
Rate of injury and illness cases per 100 full-time workers
Total recordable cases	2.5
Cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer	1.3
Cases involving days away from work	0.5
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	Dec. 2020	Jan. 2021	Feb. 2021	Mar. 2021
Producer price index		(p)118.5	(p)120.6	(p)116.6	(p)122.1
Percent change from previous month		(p)0.2%	(p)1.8%	(p)-3.3%	(p)4.7%
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	4th quarter 2019	1st quarter 2020	2nd quarter 2020	3rd quarter 2020
Number of establishments
Private industry		48,871	(p)48,394	(p)48,072	(p)48,002
Local government		2	(p)3	(p)3	(p)3
State government		2	(p)2	(p)2	(p)2
Federal government		34	(p)35	(p)34	(p)33
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

(Source: Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages)

Productivity

Data series	Back data	2016	2017	2018	2019
Labor productivity index, output per hour		121.217	123.193	130.940	139.043
Percent change from previous year		2.7	1.6	6.3	6.2
Labor index, total labor hours		94.552	92.917	86.056	80.867
Percent change from previous year		0.1	-1.7	-7.4	-6.0
Output index		114.614	114.467	112.682	112.440
Percent change from previous year		2.8	-0.1	-1.6	-0.2
Unit labor costs index		93.513	93.073	94.449	95.285
Percent change from previous year		-5.1	-0.5	1.5	0.9

(Source: Productivity and Costs)

 

Data extracted on: April 16, 2021