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Foodservice Distributor Compensation Benchmarks Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

Datadory delivers foodservice distributor compensation benchmarks data covering comprehensive field definitions, entity mappings, and historical time series — structured for direct analytics and delivered on demand.

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Scale context matters when quoting those medians. The same page puts the sector at $382 billion in annual sales across roughly 17,100 facilities, with 168,300 vehicles in combined fleet operations delivering 12 billion cases a year - about 33 million per day. One caution travels with every figure: Datadory's research pass found no published methodology for the 2023 medians, so treat them as trade-association survey estimates rather than audited statistics.

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Food Distributors United States

IFDA – International Foodservice Distributors Association Research Library

Financial Exchanges & Data United States: national aggregate, all 50 states

U.S. Economic Census - Wholesale Trade (NAICS 424)

RCPTOT · ESTAB_F · RCPTOT_F …+1 more

Financial Exchanges & Data United States - national totals, all 50 states plus the…

Annual Integrated Economic Survey (AIES) - successor to AWTS

Distributors United States, national totals only - no state or metro…

Monthly Wholesale Trade Survey (MWTS): Sales & Inventories

Cargo & Ground Transportation United States origin shipping areas to major destination markets

USDA Agricultural Truck Rate Report (AgTransport)

Financial Exchanges & Data United States - national totals only

USDA ERS Food Dollar Series

Account · Xf1101 · Category

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Questions worth asking

Is there an official government alternative to IFDA pay benchmarks?

Partially. The Economic Census for Wholesale Trade (NAICS 424) publishes annual payroll, first-quarter payroll and employees for grocery wholesalers (NAICS 4244) by county - 621,911 wholesale employees at the 2022 US total - and the Annual Integrated Economic Survey refreshes payroll and employment annually by NAICS. Both are commercial delivery terms but stop at averages; neither names a role.