# 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. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

- Edition: Data verified Nov 2026 · CollegesRef 2026–27 edition
- Page: https://www.collegesref.com/careers/stockers-and-order-fillers
- SOC code: 53-7065.00
- Career family: Transportation
- Median annual pay: $37,330 (10th percentile $30,110, 90th percentile $49,260)
- Projected growth: Much faster than average, +8.9%
- Openings a year: 430,700
- Typical entry education: No formal credential
- Bright outlook: yes
- Data years: BLS 2025 wages · 2025–35 projections

## Interest profile (code CRE)

| Interest area | Score (0–100) |
| --- | ---: |
| Realistic (R) | 63 |
| Investigative (I) | 0 |
| Artistic (A) | 0 |
| Social (S) | 15 |
| Enterprising (E) | 38 |
| Conventional (C) | 88 |

## What you'd do

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

## 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

## Also called

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

## Related careers

- [Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/shipping-receiving-and-inventory-clerks): $45,260 median pay
- [Counter and Rental Clerks](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/counter-and-rental-clerks): $41,300 median pay
- [Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/weighers-measurers-checkers-and-samplers-recordkeeping): $46,380 median pay
- [Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/laborers-and-freight-stock-and-material-movers-hand): $40,240 median pay
- [Retail Salespersons](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/retail-salespersons): $35,410 median pay
- [Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators](https://www.collegesref.com/careers/postal-service-mail-sorters-processors-and-processing-machine-operators): $58,470 median pay

## Sources

- [O*NET Database](https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html), version 31.0 (CC BY 4.0)
- [BLS Employment Projections](https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables.htm), version 2025-35, data year 2025 (Public domain (U.S. government work))
- [BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/oes/tables.htm), version 2025, data year 2025 (Public domain (U.S. government work))
- [NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk](https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cipcode/resources.aspx?y=56), version 2020, data year 2020 (Public domain (U.S. government work))

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