Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

A median of $44,724 in gross receipts is high for a nonemployer business. Enough revenue passes through the middle of this field that a full-time living is plausible for the people running it well.

17,048 people filed under this code — enough that the work exists everywhere and not enough that it supports a visible trade. Most people doing Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers are doing it alongside something else.

33.3% of filers grossed $100,000 or more. At that share the upper band is not an exception, it is a large minority of the field — though gross receipts at this level usually carry proportionate costs.

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

There is no training requirement to file under this code — which is precisely why so many people appear in the bottom bands. Entry being free is not the same as the work being viable.

The top quarter of Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers earns 13.7x the bottom quarter — under $13,115 against over $179,819, a spread of $166,704. Distributions this stretched are usually two different jobs sharing one label, and any average across them means little.

The bottom quarter of Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers earns under $13,115 — $36,905 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.

21.2% of the 17,048 filers in 2022 — 3,622 people — took under $10,000 in receipts for the year. Low for this dataset, and still a fifth of everyone who tried it earning almost nothing before costs.

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 $13,115 to $179,819 is 13.7x — the shape of a field where a minority captures most of the money. The midpoint of $44,724 is arithmetic, not a forecast, and treating it as one is the standard mistake here.

The middle half of this field earns between $13,115 and $179,819. That is $166,704 of range, with $44,724 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

The 75th percentile is $179,819. Reaching it from the $44,724 midpoint is $135,095 a year; reaching it from the $13,115 that the bottom quarter of Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers earn is $166,704.

The top quarter of Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers begins $135,095 above the $44,724 midpoint, while the bottom quarter starts only $31,609 below it. A range stretched that far in one direction is the signature of a field where a small group earns a great deal more than the middle does.

Per hour of a full-time year, the middle of Motor Vehicle and Motor Vehicle Parts and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers takes $21.50 in revenue — $6.30 at the bottom quarter and $86.45 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.

Counted straight off the return: 2,040 filers grossed under $5,000, 1,583 took $5,000 to $9,999, 2,942 took $10,000 to $24,999, 5,642 cleared $100,000 and 2,996 cleared $250,000.