Key Distribution Center

Gender and Minority Composition

Table 3 examines laborer and operative employees at retail distribution centers. Employment in these key distribution center jobs is just like total employment as it increases as locations become less urban. The total number of distribution center laborers and operatives in the most rural category (19,455 employees) is slightly larger than the total number of distributive laborers and operatives in the most urban category (17,328). Within MSA's with 1 million or more population, the "outer" locations all have a larger number of distribution center laborers and operatives than the "inner" locations. The difference between outer and inner locations with respect to the number of laborers and operatives can be expressed as ratio of 1.4 (7,436 versus 5,253) for places with 50,000 to 249,999 population, 1.6 (10,238 versus 6,335) for places with 20,000 to 49,999 population, and 1.7 (20,559 versus 11,958) for places with less than 20,000 population. In addition, within MSA's with 250,000 to 999,999 population, the number of distribution laborers and operatives in places with a population under 50,000 is more than twice the number of distribution laborers and operatives in places with a population of 50,000 or more (21,295 versus 9,076 employees respectively

Size of Retail Distribution Centers

We do not have systematic information on plant size in square footage or the dollar value of capital investments. The EEO-1 report, however, does provide information on the total number of employees. Most of the retail distribution centers in our sample are moderately large. The total number of employers per distribution center in our sample varies from 50 persons to 1,354 persons. (Keep in mind that centers with less than 50 employees are not required to file individual EEO-1 reports.) The median firm size is 212 employees with an upper quartile of 507 or more employees and a lower quartile of 98 or fewer employees.14 By contrast, the median firm size, for all establishments in the EEO-1 Survey, is 111 employees with an upper quartile of 201 or more employees and a lower quartile of 70 or fewer employees.

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