Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers

$43,908 in median gross receipts — $3,659 a month — is a strong figure for this dataset. Revenue at that level survives a normal cost base, which is not true of most codes on this site.

At 11,647 filers this is a real but thin national population. There is no established price for Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers at this scale, which cuts both ways: nothing anchors you low and nothing anchors you high.

3,750 filers, 32.2% of the total, took $100,000 or more in receipts. Read the size of that group as evidence about turnover in Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers rather than about income: the costs scale with it.

This kind of wholesaling suits people with a supply relationship others cannot easily get, because without one you are competing on terms alone.

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.

13.8x between the quarters — $12,003 against $166,203, or $12,850 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 Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers earns under $12,003 — $38,017 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 if you cannot fund inventory or extend credit terms — both are the actual product.

22.7% of the 11,647 Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers filings in 2022 reported under $10,000 in gross receipts for the year — 2,647 people who took in less than a part-time wage before costs.

That share is a floor, not an estimate: $10,000 is revenue, not earnings. Everyone counted inside it kept less than $10,000, and an unknown number of the filers above it also finished the year with nothing after costs.

At 13.8x, the gap between $12,003 and $166,203 is the shape of a field with a small, well-paid top. $43,908 is real and it is not a forecast — the people quoting the upper end at you are describing a minority.

The middle half of this field earns between $12,003 and $166,203. That is $154,200 of range, with $43,908 sitting inside it as the point half the field is above and half below.

Between $12,003 and $166,203 — the two ends of the middle half — sits $43,908. Moving from the midpoint to the upper quarter is worth $122,295; the whole climb from the lower quarter is $154,200.

$31,905 below the midpoint, $122,295 above it. That asymmetry is extreme even for this data, and it means every summary of Professional and Commercial 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 Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers takes $21.10 in revenue — $5.77 at the bottom quarter and $79.90 at the top. Costs have not been deducted from any of those figures, so none of them is an hourly wage.

Straight from the Census bands for Professional and Commercial Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: 1,495 filers under $5,000, 1,152 between $5,000 and $9,999, 1,983 between $10,000 and $24,999, 3,749 above $100,000 and 1,852 above $250,000.