Stockers and Order Fillers Salary and Pay

The national wage ladder (BLS OEWS, May 2024)

A percentile marks a point in this occupation's pay distribution: the worker one quarter of the way up the Stockers and Order Fillers ladder earns the 25th percentile wage, $33,710. BLS top-codes very high wages ($239,200+ a year, $115.00+ an hour) and marks estimates it cannot publish as n/p.

Employment and concentration

BLS counted 2,779,530 Stockers and Order Fillers jobs in May 2024, which is 1.80% of all U.S. employment in the survey. Work is most concentrated in South Dakota, where the location quotient is 1.49, meaning the occupation holds 1.49 times its national share of local jobs. Texas employs the most people outright, 283,120 of them, and the three largest state employers together account for 27.1% of the national total.

The spread matters as much as the center. Earners at the 90th percentile make $49,200, which is 1.6 times the $29,850 at the 10th, a difference of $19,350 annually. Because the mean wage ($38,910) sits above the median ($37,090), a typical offer should be judged against the median and the 25th to 75th percentile band, not the mean.

Pay by state

Every state with a publishable estimate is in this table, 51 of them, sorted by jobs. The pay leader by median is Washington at $42,210; the jobs leader is Texas:

The occupation in context

Ranked against all 826 published occupations, Stockers and Order Fillers stands number 8 by employment and number 760 by median pay. Inside its own major group, Transportation and Material Moving Occupations, the group median wage is $52,310 across 50 detailed occupations, so this occupation pays 29% less than its group median, and it supplies 20.4% of the group's 13,645,590 jobs. In 20 of the 51 states with a published median, the state median beats the national median of $37,090, which is the single best quick test of whether this occupation's pay is set nationally or locally: a high count means local markets regularly outbid the national figure.

Metropolitan areas: where the jobs and the pay sit

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is the largest metro employer with 130,860 jobs, 4.7% of the national total. Two rankings follow across the 393 metros BLS publishes for this occupation: where the jobs are, then where the money is, with the pay ranking restricted to metros employing at least 500 people in this occupation to keep small samples out of the lead.

Largest metro employers

Highest-paying metros (500+ jobs)

At the other end, Aguadilla, PR posts the lowest mean pay among metros with at least 500 jobs, $23,290 a year, against $47,790 in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The lowest-paying large metro and the highest are both real markets for this occupation; the difference between them is the geography premium, or penalty, in cash terms.

What the median pay looks like as a budget

Budget arithmetic on the median: $3,091 a month before tax, $1,427 biweekly, $713 weekly. Moving from the 25th percentile ($33,710) to the 75th ($43,140) is worth $9,430 a year, which is the realistic size of the experience and specialization premium inside this occupation. To turn any of these gross figures into spendable money, run them through the paycheck calculator; to weigh an offer against your current role, use the salary calculator; to test a raise against prices, the raise vs inflation calculator.

To place a real offer: a salary of $40,799 would sit between the median ($37,090) and the 75th percentile ($43,140), inside the top half but outside the top quarter of this occupation's ladder. An offer at the 25th percentile, $33,710, is $3,380 under the median, the typical size of the discount attached to entry-level or low-cost-market postings in this field.

Related occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Sibling occupations in Transportation and Material Moving Occupations: Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment, Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs, Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity, Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors, Parking Attendants, Flight Attendants. Medians there are computed identically, so the comparison is apples to apples; the full set lives on the Careers hub.