Retail industry contribution to GDP (snapshot)
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United States · as of 20 Aug 2026
Retail industry contribution to GDP in the United States was 5.3 trillion USD as of 20 August 2026 (NRF).
- Publisher
- NRF
- Authority tier
- T2 Official
- Locator
- About NRF
- Retrieved
- 23 Sep 2026
- Status
- Verified
What the source says
Retail is the nation’s largest private-sector employer, contributing $5.3 trillion to annual GDP and supporting more than one in four U.S. jobs — 55 million working Americans.
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Cite this figure
APA
National Retail Federation. (2026). New Jersey Employer Penalty Threatens Jobs, Health Care Coverage and Economic Growth. Retrieved September 23, 2026, from https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/new-jersey-employer-penalty-threatens-jobs-health-care-coverage-and-economic-growth. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T8JP2GQ7W71KMFR08S805PP1Y7
Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
- MLA
- National Retail Federation. "New Jersey Employer Penalty Threatens Jobs, Health Care Coverage and Economic Growth." 2026, https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/new-jersey-employer-penalty-threatens-jobs-health-care-coverage-and-economic-growth. Accessed 23 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T8JP2GQ7W71KMFR08S805PP1Y7.
- Chicago
- National Retail Federation. "New Jersey Employer Penalty Threatens Jobs, Health Care Coverage and Economic Growth." 2026. https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/new-jersey-employer-penalty-threatens-jobs-health-care-coverage-and-economic-growth. Accessed September 23, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T8JP2GQ7W71KMFR08S805PP1Y7.
- BibTeX
- @misc{nrf2026retail5pp1y7, author = {{National Retail Federation}}, title = {New Jersey Employer Penalty Threatens Jobs, Health Care Coverage and Economic Growth}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_T8JP2GQ7W71KMFR08S805PP1Y7}, note = {Original source: https://nrf.com/media-center/press-releases/new-jersey-employer-penalty-threatens-jobs-health-care-coverage-and-economic-growth. Accessed September 23, 2026.} }
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Primary source
- Publisher
- National Retail Federation · homepage ↗
- Authority tier
- Tier 2 · National and industry official
- Report
- New Jersey Employer Penalty Threatens Jobs, Health Care Coverage and Economic Growth
- Type
- Press release
- Published
- —
- Locator
- About NRF
- Retrieved
- 23 September 2026
- Link status
- Reachable (HTTP 200)
- Report licence
- See source
Verification
- Status
- Verified
- Review protocol
- pipeline:quote-verified-v2
- Checked on
- 27 September 2026
- Last revision
- 27 September 2026
- Permanent URL
- /stat/stat_T8JP2GQ7W71KMFR08S805PP1Y7