Stockers and order fillers in the United States earn a median of $37,330 a year. Pay starts near $30,110. The national 90th percentile is $49,260. This page does not publish a state top-of-range figure.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (Stockers and Order Fillers, SOC 53-7065). Employment 2,833,810. Last checked 22 September 2026. National percentiles via the BLS OEWS release as republished on O*NET OnLine wage tables.
Wages — U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2025 (Stockers and Order Fillers). Entry is the national 10th percentile. The top chip is the national 90th percentile, not a state. The middle half of workers earns $34,450 to $44,650. Hourly equivalents: $14.48, $17.95, and $23.68. BLS groups stockers and order fillers with hand laborers and material movers, and the Occupational Outlook Handbook lists no formal educational credential as the typical entry-level education for that group. The marker on the exposure bar is PayCrunch editorial context, not a BLS statistic. Updated 22 September 2026.
Receive, store, and issue merchandise to fill shelves, racks, or customer orders. Mark prices, set up displays, and use the scanner or the warehouse system the building already runs.
AI tools that fit Stocker work September 2026
A short list of general tools. This is not a sponsored placement, not a weekly crawl, and not a product review with prices. Use whatever your employer already allows.
AI inside Excel.
How a Stocker uses it: Turn a count sheet into a short list of locations that do not match the backroom.
A general assistant for checklists.
How a Stocker uses it: Draft a backstock pull list from locations you paste. Do not invent a bin the sheet does not have.
Google's assistant in Workspace.
How a Stocker uses it: Summarize a vendor packing note into what actually arrived.
Stocker: the case, the slot, and SOC 53-7065
Stockers and order fillers are SOC 53-7065. The locked chips are entry $30,110, median $37,330, and a national 90th percentile of $49,260. BLS counted 2,833,810 wage-and-salary workers in this occupation in May 2025. The warehouse-worker page on this site is a different SOC, laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand (53-7062). Do not mix the two medians.
Where the national band sits
The middle half earns $34,450 to $44,650. The step from the median $37,330 to the national 90th percentile $49,260 is $11,930 a year. People reach the upper part of the national distribution by running a department's freight, catching count errors before they become empty shelves, and using powered equipment only with the certification the site requires. This page does not price that equipment and does not name a state.
A count you can defend
If the gun says twelve and the shelf has four, the note needs the location, the item, and the time. Moving a case to the wrong slot to make the aisle look full creates the next miss. Rotation, dates, and weight limits are the physical checks a chat window cannot see.
Outlook
O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as much faster than average (7 percent or higher). That phrase is the BLS category, not a claim that this occupation grows at exactly 7 percent. O*NET projects about 472,300 openings a year over 2024–2034.
Locked wage chips on this page: entry $30,110, median $37,330, national 90th percentile $49,260. SOC 53-7065. If a sentence disagrees with those three figures, the figures win.
How to do the work that sits inside this pay band
These steps stay inside the published national range. They are not a promise that you will be paid the 90th percentile.
A perfect on-hand number that is not on the shelf is still a miss.
Here are on-hand counts and what I actually saw. List only the mismatches. Do not add items I did not type.Freight in the aisle is not freight on the shelf.
Match this list of empty facings to these backstock locations. Flag anything that does not match.A picked order needs a count and a location.
Turn this pick ticket and these shorts into a three-line stage note: picked, short, and where it is sitting.Careers related to Stocker
Similar pay, same field
- Retail Salesperson $35,410
- Warehouse Worker $40,240
- Cashier $32,880
- Shipping Clerk $45,260
- Packer $36,280
Where this can lead
- Office Clerk $45,010
- Customer Service Representative $44,770
Wages in this list are the national medians printed on those pages. Every new page in this batch uses BLS OEWS May 2025.
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Paste only facts you already have: a tag, a count, a calendar constraint, a file name. If the draft adds a number, a policy, or a product you did not provide, delete it.
Do not paste account numbers, full customer records, or anything your employer has told you to keep inside its own system.
TODO: PC_GEAR is not filled in this batch. No product links and no ASINs until a reviewed list exists. Do not invent ASINs.
TODO: state-wage table is not filled in this batch. The chips above are national OEWS May 2025 percentiles only. State medians are not estimated here.
Sources
- BLS OEWS — Stockers and Order Fillers (SOC 53-7065)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook — related profile
- O*NET OnLine summary for 53-7065.00 (2025 wages and 2024–2034 outlook category)
- Salary (10th, 25th, median, 75th, 90th) — national BLS OEWS May 2025.
- Employment — national OEWS May 2025 wage-and-salary employment, 2,833,810.
- Outlook — O*NET reports projected growth for 2024–2034 as much faster than average (7 percent or higher). That phrase is the BLS category, not a claim that this occupation grows at exactly 7 percent. Projected openings: about 472,300 a year.
- Not on this page — state wages, metro wages, and product recommendations.
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