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Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products

SOC 13-1022.00 · 28,652 matched workers · high confidence

Democratic lean
55.9% Democratic, 44.1% Republican

Two-party shares across 28,652 workers in this occupation matched to voter registration records.

55.9%
44.1%
DemocraticRepublican
Imputed
57.4% D · 42.6% R
Includes lean for unaffiliated registrants
Major group
Business and Financial Operations Occupations
SOC major code 13-0000
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Where Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products falls

Near the middle of occupations in Business and Financial Operations Occupations (47th percentile).

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How this is measured

VRscores estimate the partisan composition of an occupation by linking voter registration records to employment profiles. Each worker is assigned to one occupation per year. The two-party shares above exclude workers with no major-party affiliation.

Read the full methodology or the published Organization Science paper.

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Citation

Kagan, Max; Frake, Justin; Hurst, Reuben (2026). “VRscores: A New Measure and Data Set of Workforce Politics Using Voter Registrations.” Organization Science, 37(2), 444–465.
https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2025.20402