- Retail merchandising is a large occupation, with over 1.3 million people working in this career as of 2010, finds the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The average salary is $30.16 per hour, or $62,720 per year. The median salary is lower, at $25.21 per hour, or $52,440 per year.
- The middle 50 percent of retail merchandisers have salaries of $17.74 to $36.53 per hour, or $36,910 to $75,980 per year, as of the BLS 2010 survey. The bottom 10 percent of the pay scale is at or below $12.97 per hour, or $26,970 per year. The top 10 percent of retail merchandisers have salaries of $52.28 per hour and higher, or $108,750 per year and more.
- The largest number of retail merchandisers work for wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers, earning $71,060 per year on average. The average salary with paper and paper product wholesalers is nearly identical, at $71,020 per year. Many other employment settings pay significantly less, however. Miscellaneous nondurable goods merchant wholesalers, for example, pay retail merchandisers $53,080 per year on average. Grocery and related product merchant wholesalers pay an average annual salary of $59,500, and beer, wine and distilled alcoholic beverage wholesalers pay an average $54,890. Retail merchandisers working for hardware and plumbing and heating equipment and supplies wholesalers have a yearly average salary of $57,070. Furniture and home furnishing wholesalers pay an average $60,450, and machinery, equipment and supplies wholesalers pay $61,080 on average.
- The top-paying state for retail merchandisers as of 2010 is Connecticut, where they average $76,230 per year. Rounding out the top five are New York, at an average annual salary of $74,880, Minnesota at $74,210, Massachusetts at $73,470 and New Jersey at $71,480.
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