["python","pandas","group-by"]
Pandas percentage of total with groupby

This is obviously simple, but as a numpy newbe I'm getting stuck. I have a CSV file that contains 3 columns, the State, the Office ID, and the Sales for that office. I want to calculate the percentage of sales per office in a given state (total of all percentages in each state is 100%). df = pd.DataFrame({'state': ['CA', 'WA', 'CO', 'AZ'] * 3, 'office_id': list(range(1, 7)) * 2, 'sales': [np.random.randint(100000, 999999) for _ in range(12)]}) df.groupby(['state', 'office_id']).agg({'sales': 'sum'}) This returns: sales state office_id AZ 2 839507 4 373917 6 347225 CA 1 798585 3 890850 5 454423 CO 1 819975 3 202969 5 614011 WA 2 163942 4 369858 6 959285 I can't seem to figure out how to "reach up" to the state level of the groupby to total up the sales for the entire state to calculate the fraction.
Update 2022-03 This answer by caner using transform looks much better than my original answer! df['sales'] / df.groupby('state')['sales'].transform('sum') Thanks to this comment by Paul Rougieux for surfacing it. Original Answer (2014) Paul H's answer is right that you will have to make a second groupby object, but you can calculate the percentage in a simpler way -- just groupby the state_office and divide the sales column by its sum. Copying the beginning of Paul H's answer: # From Paul H import numpy as np import pandas as pd np.random.seed(0) df = pd.DataFrame({'state': ['CA', 'WA', 'CO', 'AZ'] * 3, 'office_id': list(range(1, 7)) * 2, 'sales': [np.random.randint(100000, 999999) for _ in range(12)]}) state_office = df.groupby(['state', 'office_id']).agg({'sales': 'sum'}) # Change: groupby state_office and divide by sum state_pcts = state_office.groupby(level=0).apply(lambda x: 100 * x / float(x.sum())) Returns: sales state office_id AZ 2 16.981365 4 19.250033 6 63.768601 CA 1 19.331879 3 33.858747 5 46.809373 CO 1 36.851857 3 19.874290 5 43.273852 WA 2 34.707233 4 35.511259 6 29.781508