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    Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

    Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor.

    Median pay
    $40,240
    Growth
    +1.8%
    Slower than average
    Openings a year
    340,500
    Typical education
    No formal credential

    Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition

    Source: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

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    Annual pay range

    Lowest 10% earn less than
    $31,270
    Median
    $40,240
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $55,140
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    2,950,280 people work in this occupation.

    What laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

    Usually a high school diploma; some on-the-job training or experience.

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R) · strongest
    84 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    2 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    0 / 100
    Social (S)
    8 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    17 / 100
    Conventional (C)
    66 / 100
    How strongly each interest area describes the work, from O*NET (scores rescaled to 0–100). The interest code lists the strongest areas in order.

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    What you'd do

    Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials
    79
    Getting Information
    77
    Handling and Moving Objects
    74
    Performing General Physical Activities
    73
    Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
    71
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    71
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    70
    Coaching and Developing Others
    67
    Training and Teaching Others
    67
    Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
    60
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Coordination
    • Active Listening
    • Monitoring
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Speaking
    • Operation and Control
    • Operations Monitoring
    • Time Management
    • Critical Thinking
    • Judgment and Decision Making

    Knowledge

    • Administration and Management
    • Customer and Personal Service
    • Public Safety and Security
    • Transportation
    • Production and Processing
    • Mathematics
    • English Language
    • Personnel and Human Resources
    • Administrative
    • Education and Training

    Abilities

    • Static Strength
    • Trunk Strength
    • Multilimb Coordination
    • Extent Flexibility
    • Manual Dexterity
    • Near Vision
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Stamina
    • Arm-Hand Steadiness
    • Control Precision

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Attention to Detail
    • Cautiousness
    • Perseverance
    • Integrity
    • Cooperation
    • Stress Tolerance
    • Self-Control
    • Optimism
    • Achievement Orientation

    Also called

    Air and Water Filler · Airport Maintenance Laborer · Aluminum Can Collector · Ash Collector · Ash Handler · Ash Pit Worker · Ash Worker · Assorter · Bag Turner · Bag Worker

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    Licenses by state

    2 states list a license for this work. Open your state for the license and the agency that issues it.

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    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

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    Sources and attribution

    Every figure on this page comes from these public datasets. Missing values are shown as not reported, never estimated.

    O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. CollegesRef has modified all or some of this information.

    Data from CareerOneStop, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor (Employment and Training Administration, with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development). Retrieved November 6, 2026.

    Page data updated November 5, 2026.