New York, NY · Real Estate Agents
Real Estate Agents in New York, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 6,944 real estate agent and broker offices in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area in 2023, employing 24,628 people with $2.5 billion in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
6,944
2nd most of 387 US metro areas
24,628
3.5 per business, against 2.4 across all metros
$2.5 billion
$102,788 per employee
95%
of businesses, against 97% across all metros
-3.1%
in the number of businesses (7,168 in 2022)
What the numbers say about New York.
- New York is one of the ten largest metro markets in the country for real estate agent and broker offices, 2nd of 387.
- Businesses here run larger than average: 3.5 employees each, against 2.4 across all metros.
- Pay runs above the metro average: $102,788 per employee a year, against $80,893.
- The count fell by 224 businesses since 2022.
How VERA helps real estate agents in New York.
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Questions
Real Estate Agents in New York
How many real estate agent and broker offices are there in New York?
6,944 in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 24,628 people and paid $2.5 billion in annual payroll.
Is the New York market for real estate agents growing?
By number of businesses it shrank between 2022 and 2023: from 7,168 to 6,944 (-3.1%).
What does VERA do for real estate agents in New York?
VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a New York business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.
Real Estate Agents in other markets
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is real estate agent and broker offices, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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