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    Stockers and Order Fillers

    Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders.

    Median pay
    $37,330
    Growth
    +8.9%
    Much faster than average
    Openings a year
    430,700
    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
    $30,110
    Median
    $37,330
    Highest 10% earn more than
    $49,260
    National wages for all workers in this occupation. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025.

    2,833,810 people work in this occupation.

    What stockers and order fillers do

    Job Zone 2: Some preparation

    Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

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

    Interest profile

    Realistic (R)
    63 / 100
    Investigative (I)
    0 / 100
    Artistic (A)
    0 / 100
    Social (S)
    15 / 100
    Enterprising (E)
    38 / 100
    Conventional (C) · strongest
    88 / 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.

    Interest code CRE. Compare it with yours

    What you'd do

    Handling and Moving Objects
    75
    Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
    74
    Performing General Physical Activities
    71
    Getting Information
    69
    Performing for or Working Directly with the Public
    69
    Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
    68
    Making Decisions and Solving Problems
    61
    Developing and Building Teams
    61
    Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
    60
    Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
    59
    Work activities rated by importance for this occupation, O*NET (0–100).

    Skills and strengths

    Skills

    • Active Listening
    • Reading Comprehension
    • Coordination
    • Critical Thinking
    • Service Orientation
    • Social Perceptiveness
    • Speaking
    • Judgment and Decision Making
    • Monitoring
    • Time Management

    Knowledge

    • Customer and Personal Service
    • English Language
    • Public Safety and Security
    • Production and Processing
    • Sales and Marketing
    • Computers and Electronics
    • Mathematics
    • Administration and Management
    • Communications and Media
    • Education and Training

    Abilities

    • Near Vision
    • Oral Comprehension
    • Extent Flexibility
    • Manual Dexterity
    • Static Strength
    • Trunk Strength
    • Written Comprehension
    • Arm-Hand Steadiness
    • Category Flexibility
    • Information Ordering

    Work styles

    • Dependability
    • Attention to Detail
    • Integrity
    • Cooperation
    • Cautiousness
    • Perseverance
    • Stress Tolerance
    • Social Orientation
    • Achievement Orientation
    • Optimism

    Also called

    Backroom Associate · Bakery Products Checker · Bay Stocker · Checker Stocker · Clerical Warehouse Worker · Clerical Warehouseman · Crib Attendant · Crib Clerk · Cycle Counter · Dairy Clerk

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    Certifications, licenses and pay by state

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    Licenses by state

    1 state lists 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.