Furniture retail is measured through several overlapping lenses: Census sales and inventory data, BLS payroll employment and earnings, and company-specific disclosures. In the United States, furniture stores reported $68.930 billion in 2024 sales among employer firms, while broader furniture and home-furnishings stores reported $129.801 billion in 2023 sales.
Key Furniture Retail Statistics
The most useful headline figures span market scale, labor, channels, and supply:
- In 2024, furniture stores in the United States reported $68.930 billion in sales, shipments, or revenue among NAICS 442110 employer firms.
- In 2023, U.S. furniture and home-furnishings stores reported $129.801 billion in sales, shipments, or revenue across NAICS 442 employer firms.
- Furniture stores held $9.382 billion in end-of-year inventories in the United States at the end of 2023.
- U.S. furniture stores reported 187,705 paid employees in 2024.
- Furniture stores reported $9.441 billion in payroll in the United States in 2024.
- Furniture and home-furnishings retailers employed 430,000 people in the United States in November 2024.
- Furniture retailers employed 197,100 people in the United States in November 2024.
- Furniture retailers’ production and nonsupervisory employees averaged $26.47 per hour in December 2024 in the United States.
- Those furniture-retailer employees averaged $854.98 in weekly earnings in December 2024.
- Lovesac generated $700.265 million in total net sales in its fiscal year ended February 4, 2024.
- Lovesac showroom sales represented 62.5% of fiscal 2024 net sales.
- Lovesac internet sales represented 28.5% of fiscal 2024 net sales.
- Ethan Allen’s retail segment reported $540.550 million in fiscal 2024 net sales for the year ended June 30, 2024.
- RH reported $2.040 billion of furniture revenue for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2024.
- Furniture and home-furnishing merchant wholesalers reported $16.788 billion in 2023 sales, shipments, or revenue in the United States.
- Ethan Allen estimated that it manufactured approximately 75% of the furniture it sold in fiscal 2024.
- Seasonally adjusted furniture-retailer employment averaged 208,500 in December 2025, compared with 216,700 in January 2024.
Contents
- U.S. furniture retail sales and store segments
- Furniture retail inventories, establishments, and operating structure
- Furniture retail employment and earnings
- Furniture retail channels and company sales
- Furniture wholesale, manufacturing, and supply chains
- Furniture retail trends across home-furnishing categories
U.S. Furniture Retail Sales and Store Segments
The Census Bureau’s 2024 measure covers employer firms classified under specific NAICS retail categories. It is an industry sales, value-of-shipments, or revenue measure, not a consumer-spending estimate.
| U.S. retail category | 2024 sales, shipments, or revenue | 2024 population |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture stores | $68.930 billion | NAICS 442110 employer firms |
| Floor-covering stores | $26.324 billion | NAICS 442210 employer firms |
| Window-treatment stores | $2.653 billion | NAICS 442291 employer firms |
| All other home-furnishings stores | $27.119 billion | NAICS 442299 employer firms |
Furniture stores also reported $9.441 billion in payroll and 187,705 paid employees in 2024. Census payroll is not total labor compensation per worker, and the employee figure is an annual employer-firm count rather than a full-time-equivalent measure.
Floor-covering stores reported $3.713 billion in payroll, while all other home-furnishings stores reported $3.310 billion. The categories should be read separately because floor covering, window treatments, furniture, and other home furnishings are not interchangeable populations.
Furniture Retail Data on Inventories and Operating Structure
The 2023 Census series shows how much inventory was held at year-end across furniture and home-furnishing retail categories. These are book-value inventory measures, not consumer purchases or retail selling values.
| Category | End-of-year inventory at end of 2023 | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture and home-furnishings stores | $17.326 billion | NAICS 442 employer firms |
| Furniture stores | $9.382 billion | NAICS 4421 employer firms |
| Floor-covering stores | $3.582 billion | NAICS 442210 employer firms |
| Other home-furnishings stores | $4.362 billion | NAICS 44229 employer firms |
Source: Retail Trade: Inventory Valuation Statistics for Employer Firms in the U.S., 2023.
The broader 2023 sales measure was $129.801 billion for furniture and home-furnishings stores. Within that total, furniture stores reported $71.423 billion, floor-covering stores reported $27.976 billion, and other home-furnishings stores reported $30.402 billion.
The 2023 and 2024 figures are nominal source measures from different annual releases. They should not be treated as an inflation-adjusted growth calculation without additional data.
Furniture Retail Employment and Earnings Statistics
BLS payroll data provide a monthly labor-market view, with definitions that differ from Census annual employer-firm counts. In November 2024, not-seasonally-adjusted employment was 430,000 for furniture and home-furnishings retailers, including 197,100 furniture-retailer employees and 226,200 home-furnishings-retailer employees.
| November 2024 category | Employment | BLS scope |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture, home furnishings, electronics, and appliances | 846,900 | NAICS 449 |
| Furniture and home furnishings | 430,000 | NAICS 4491 |
| Furniture retailers | 197,100 | NAICS 44911 |
| Home-furnishings retailers | 226,200 | NAICS 44912 |
| Floor-covering retailers | 72,300 | NAICS 449121 |
| Window-treatment and all-other home-furnishings retailers | 153,900 | NAICS 449122 and 449129 |
In December 2024, average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory employees were $26.47 at furniture retailers and $22.83 at home-furnishings retailers. Floor-covering retailers averaged $29.72 per hour, while the combined window-treatment and all-other home-furnishings category averaged $19.30.
Furniture-retailer production and nonsupervisory employees averaged $854.98 in weekly earnings in December 2024. The comparable home-furnishings figure was $600.43.
Source: Table B-8a. Average hourly and weekly earnings of production and nonsupervisory employees, December 2024. These earnings figures cover the specified employee group, not all retail workers.
Furniture Retail Channels and Company Sales Evidence
Company filings illustrate channel structure, but they are not market totals. Fiscal years also differ, so the figures below should not be directly aggregated with one another or with calendar-year Census data.
Lovesac reported $700.265 million in total net sales for the fiscal year ended February 4, 2024. Its showroom channel produced $437.394 million, internet sales were $199.778 million, and other-channel sales were $63.093 million; the company reported showroom sales at 62.5% of net sales and internet sales at 28.5%.
Source: The Lovesac Company Form 10-K for fiscal year ended February 4, 2024. Lovesac’s net sales increased 7.5% in fiscal 2024 versus fiscal 2023, according to the company’s filing.
Ethan Allen Interiors reported $540.550 million in fiscal 2024 retail-segment net sales for the year ended June 30, 2024. Its wholesale segment reported $105.671 million in sales to external customers, and consolidated net sales were $646.221 million.
Within Ethan Allen’s retail product-line revenue, upholstered products represented 50% and case goods represented 28%. These are company-defined product categories within the retail segment, not estimates of the entire furniture market.
Source: Ethan Allen Interiors Inc. Form 10-K for fiscal year ended June 30, 2024.
RH reported $2.040 billion of furniture revenue and $989.224 million of non-furniture revenue for the fiscal year ended February 3, 2024. As of that date, RH operated 70 Galleries, 42 outlet stores, and 14 Waterworks showrooms across its disclosed operating footprint in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
Source: RH Form 10-K for fiscal year ended February 3, 2024.
Furniture Wholesale, Manufacturing, and Supply-Chain Statistics
Retail shelves and online catalogs depend on upstream wholesale and manufacturing activity. In 2023, U.S. furniture and home-furnishing merchant wholesalers reported $16.788 billion in sales, shipments, or revenue and $275.520 million in payroll.
Source: Wholesale Trade: Summary Statistics for Furniture and Home Furnishing Merchant Wholesalers, 2023. The wholesale measure covers NAICS 4232 merchant wholesalers except manufacturers’ sales branches and offices, and it is not retail sell-through.
Ethan Allen estimated that approximately 75% of the furniture it sold in fiscal 2024 was manufactured by the company. The remaining imported exposure was approximately 25% as a derived complement of that rounded company approximation, so neither figure should be generalized to the industry.
In Ethan Allen’s fiscal 2024 wholesale product-line revenue, upholstered products represented 49% and case goods represented 32%. The company’s manufacturing and product-mix disclosures describe one issuer’s supply chain and are not representative estimates for every retailer.
Furniture Retail Trends Across Home-Furnishing Categories
The BLS seasonally adjusted production and nonsupervisory employment series offers a comparison between January 2024 and December 2025. These are monthly estimates and cover the specified employee series rather than every worker in each industry.
| Category | January 2024 | December 2025 | Series definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Furniture retailers | 216,700 | 208,500 | NAICS 44911 |
| Home-furnishings retailers | 223,500 | 218,900 | NAICS 44912 |
| Floor-covering retailers | 71,200 | 71,400 | NAICS 449121 |
| Window-treatment and all-other home furnishings | 151,900 | 147,600 | NAICS 449122 and 449129 |
Source: Table B-6a. Employment of production and nonsupervisory employees, December 2025.
The furniture-retailer series was 216,700 in January 2024 and 208,500 in December 2025, while home-furnishings retailers moved from 223,500 to 218,900 over the same stated comparison points. Floor-covering retailers were 71,200 and 71,400, respectively, and the combined window-treatment and all-other category was 151,900 and 147,600.
These observations are best read as category-specific employment snapshots. Census industry definitions, BLS payroll series, and issuer-defined company product lines measure different populations and should remain distinct when interpreting furniture retail scale and trends.