Dress Shirt: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $6.15 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $2.60 at volume, on a typical 35-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $6.15 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $5.75 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $4.45 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $3.75 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $3.10 |
| 100,000+ units | $2.60 |
What moves the price
For dress shirt, the drivers are size run, fabric weight, blend, print method, color count — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Real supplier quotes for dress shirts cluster around about $4.8-$5.5 at 500 MOQ on Made-in-China, while broader clothing wholesale references place business shirts in the roughly $8-$15 range and lower-cost bulk clothing in the $3-$8 band, so a mid-range custom-printed dress shirt can reasonably move downward from the mid-single digits at 500 units as volume rises. The biggest price drivers are fabric specification, weave/weight, construction quality, and decoration method; print/embroidery complexity and color count also matter, but garment cost usually dominates at scale. The most realistic sourcing routes are China-based OEM/ODM dress-shirt factories, trade platforms aggregating export quotes, or US-facing decorator/wholesaler programs that build in blank-garment cost plus decoration.
Paying more than the median?
If you reorder dress shirt regularly, run a free savings check — enter what you pay and see it against these researched medians, item by item. About three minutes, no card or account.