Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

Median gross receipts of $63,081 are unusually high for a business with no employees. Money at that scale passing through one person usually means materials, stock or subcontractors are a large part of it, so the gap between revenue and income is wide.

At 17,438 filers this is a real but thin national population. There is no established price for Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers at this scale, which cuts both ways: nothing anchors you low and nothing anchors you high.

6,905 filers, 39.6% of the total, took $100,000 or more in receipts. Read the size of that group as evidence about turnover in Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers rather than about income: the costs scale with it.

Independent durable-goods wholesaling suits people comfortable carrying inventory or credit risk between two parties who both already know the price.

There is no qualification, licence or minimum to appear in this data — you file and you are counted. Read the receipts distribution as the price of that: no barrier at the door means no filter before the numbers.

13.4x between the quarters — $16,745 against $224,390, or $17,303 a month. This is the shape of a field where a minority does very well and the summary statistics quietly borrow their success.

The bottom quarter of Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers earns under $16,745 — $33,275 below the $50,020 a typical American job pays. Entering at the bottom and waiting is a live risk here, not a theoretical one, and some people never leave that quarter.

Do not start this without knowing your carrying cost; stock sitting still is the expense that does not appear on any invoice.

Of the 17,438 people who filed as Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers in 2022, 18.4% — about 3,203 of them — grossed under $10,000 for the entire year, before a single expense was deducted. That is the gentlest end of this dataset and it is still roughly one filer in four.

Read that as a floor, not an estimate. Census publishes gross receipts, not net income, so everyone inside that share earned less than $10,000 suggests once costs came out — and filers who grossed well above $10,000 may still have netted nothing.

From $16,745 to $224,390 is 13.4x — the shape of a field where a minority captures most of the money. The midpoint of $63,081 is arithmetic, not a forecast, and treating it as one is the standard mistake here.

In cash terms the middle half of Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers runs $16,745 to $224,390 — $207,645 a year between the 25th and 75th percentiles, against a midpoint of $63,081.

Getting to $224,390, the 75th percentile, is worth $161,309 a year more than the $63,081 midpoint and $207,645 more than the $16,745 a quarter of Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers settle for.

$46,336 below the midpoint, $161,309 above it. That asymmetry is extreme even for this data, and it means every summary of Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers that is not a median — including any average you see quoted elsewhere — is describing the top of the range rather than the middle.

Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Machinery, Equipment, and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers takes $30.32 in revenue — $8.05 at the bottom quarter and $107.87 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.

The raw counts, before anyone interprets them: under $5,000, 1,773 filers. $5,000 to $9,999, 1,430. $10,000 to $24,999, 2,572. Over $100,000, 6,907 — and 3,835 over $250,000.