Kitchen & Bath Dealership Salary Surveys
Working at a kitchen and bath dealership is very lucrative compared to many other professions, indicating the dynamic health of the industry as a whole. But kitchen and bath dealers lag behind many other industries in benefits offered, and may need to increase offerings to prospective employees to recruit the best and the brightest.
The NKBA's 2006 Dealer Salary Survey polled nearly 4,000 dealers who attended the 2006 Kitchen/Bath Industry Show. More than 400 dealers from around the country answered, of whom 49% were business owners, 18% were managers, and 33% were employees.
As you might expect, what you earn depends for the most part on what you do at a kitchen and bath dealership.
To see the results of each survey, please click the appropriate link below.
Lump owners, managers, and employees all together, and the average person working at a kitchen/bath dealership makes $31.01 per hour. To put that in perspective, the average worker in this country makes $18.62 per hour, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while the average white collar worker makes $22.96 per hour.
About a quarter of those who responded were in the Northeast, while 27% were in the Midwest. The South accounted for 23% of respondents, the West for just under 20%, and the remainder were Canadian.
Some 86% of all dealer personnel surveyed have a medical plan, compared to 71% of all employees nationwide (according to the BLS). Of those, 40% have a Preferred Provider Organization, or PPO; 38% have a Health Maintenance Organization, or HMO; and 5% have a Point of Service plan, or POS. Some 17% report some other type of plan.
However, just 46% of dealer personnel have dental (compared to 78% nationwide), 44% have a prescription drug plan (compared to 74% nationwide) and 27% have a vision plan (compared to 75% nationwide). See the chart below for details.
